The engagement is off for the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the father of her baby. Levi Johnston told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he and Bristol Palin mutually decided "awhile ago" to end their relationship. The 19-year-old Johnston declined to elaborate. ...more

March 12, 2009

Jada Pinkett Smith is adding another title to her resume: schoolmaster. The 37-year-old actress-producer-musician and her husband, Will Smith, opened the New Village Leadership Academy last fall. The private school, for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, has 60 students, according to the Web site. ...more

March 11, 2009

The Innocence Project of Florida is asking the Hillsborough County state attorney's office for additional DNA testing in the case of a Tampa man executed earlier this month. ...more

February 25, 2009

Often they're from out of state. No close friends yet, no relatives to lend a hand. ...more

January 26, 2009

Dear Abby: My husband and I attended the wedding of two dear friends. The groom's mother, "Millie," made party favors for all the guests - little gift bags containing sugar-coated almonds and, because the bride and groom are animal lovers, a small glass animal. A few days later, a friend brought her teenage daughter to our home. The daughter admired the two glass animals, so I gave them to her. ...more

January 11, 2009

Clearwater police say they arrested a 37-year-old man when he returned to a car he abandoned when a mother caught him having sex with her teenage daughter. ...more

December 19, 2008

Whitney Houston has issued a statement denying the rumors of a reunion with Bobby Brown. ...more

November 29, 2008

When Brooksville native Darryl Garman became an officer in Pasco County's most populous city 25 years ago, things were much different than they are now. ...more

October 13, 2008

You could argue that all Neil LaBute movies are horror movies. Whether it's "In the Company of Men," "Nurse Betty" or "The Shape of Things," someone always ends up being tormented and terrorized in some way. And in true horror-flick fashion, the victim is usually a woman. ...more

September 19, 2008

DELTONA - An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter's boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter's room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn't even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year. ...more

September 12, 2008