This matchup may not have seemed intriguing at the season's onset, but Palm Harbor University's newfound confidence after back-to-back victories should have visiting Countryside taking notice. ...more

October 9, 2008

Older Americans with investments are among the hardest-hit by the turmoil in the financial markets and have the least opportunity to recover. ...more

September 23, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - There wasn't a whole lot that Pasco's football team couldn't do Friday night. ...more

September 6, 2008

Is there a difference in nutrition between non-fat sour cream and fat-free plain yogurt? ...more

September 3, 2008

VALRICO -- The signs on the opposite side of the stadium poked fun at the Bloomingdale Bulls, but the perennial doormat showed the sign makers and everyone else, 2008 may be a different kind of year. ...more

August 30, 2008

In summer travels, the divas found themselves in Little Rock, Ark., home of barbecue, Bill Clinton, hot springs and diamond mines (yes, we went looking for a big rock in Little Rock). ...more

August 27, 2008

Tied no more. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th career gold medal - and fourth world record of the Beijing Games. ...more

August 13, 2008

Ask a roomful of readers about Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's "Leopard" and more often than not you'll find a few who will put hand to heart and say it's their favorite book, and a few others who will simply shrug - never heard of it - or ask if it has anything to do with the Visconti movie starring Burt Lancaster (yes, it does). I suppose it's a coincidence that a roomful of travelers will poll in a similar fashion if you ask them about Sicily, the marvelous, maddening island disparaged and adored in "The Leopard": It's either a favorite place, or they haven't even thought of going there. ...more

August 3, 2008

I was barbecuing a couple of pork shoulders for guests my wife and I had over for dinner a few weeks ago. I smoked the two chunks of pork over temperatures in the 200-degree range for almost 24 hours with plenty of sweet hardwood smoke. The shoulder blade slipped right out of the meat. ...more

July 29, 2008

With traffic expected to surge during the next decade, the agency that manages the Selmon Crosstown Expressway wants to widen the highway's elevated portion through downtown. ...more

July 6, 2008