While other student musicians were in full swing in the band room at Stewart Middle School, 14-year-old Benjamin Pittman sat tucked away in the band director's office, staring at a computer screen and caught up in a musical world of his own. ...more

November 21, 2009

They don't want to pay for other people's mistakes. The consensus among local men and women on the street is that the taxpayers should not "bail out" those chief executives who they think have caused the plummeting Dow Jones Industrial Average and mortgage crisis. ...more

September 26, 2008

It's Thursday morning, July 3. Eddie Kenny, Bishop McLaughlin High's new athletic director, has been on the job only two days. ...more

July 10, 2008

He woke up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee Wednesday morning. Most weekday mornings, Darren Scott Snyder, who preferred to go by his middle name, was the first one up at the Auburndale house where he lived with his wife, Pamela, and in-laws, Mary and Don Ussery. ...more

January 11, 2008

LAKELAND - He woke up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee Wednesday morning. Most weekday mornings, Darren Scott Snyder, who preferred to go by his middle name, was the first one up at the Auburndale house where he lived with his wife, Pamela, and in-laws, Mary and Don Ussery. ...more

January 10, 2008