A man known for his kind soul and generous nature was beaten about the head and strangled to death early Thursday morning. ...more

February 15, 2008

Maureen Keel was a people person. It showed in her career, which ranged from tending to the dying in hospices to counseling addicts and the mentally ill. ...more

February 7, 2008

The deaths of nine civilians, including a child, in a U.S. airstrike south of Baghdad have raised fresh concerns about the military's ability to distinguish friend from foe in a campaign to uproot insurgents from Sunni areas on the capital's doorstep. ...more

February 5, 2008

Shares of WellCare Health Plans continued to slump Thursday amid reports of the possible departure of its top three executives, and analysts at one Wall Street firm said they are not only expecting the housecleaning, but would not be surprised to see the sale of the company. ...more

January 25, 2008

If you're like me, you recently received another sack of phone books at your door. I am so sick and tired of these bloody things I could scream! Within the past six months 13-plus pounds of near-useless paper has been dumped at my doorstep. We didn't ask for the phone books. We did not put out an urgent call to Verizon or AT&T to please bring us some more dead trees or child booster seats. There they were anyway waiting annoyingly on our front stoop. ...more

December 20, 2007

Don't ask me where the year went; I haven't a clue. But here we are, at the holidays once again. I keep telling myself that this is not the time of year to try and lose all that weight I need to lose. There's simply too much good (and bad) food. I was really good at Thanksgiving this year, skipping all the desserts. OK, so I was just that full. I couldn't even think about a slice of pie. ...more

December 3, 2007

A 25-year-old man was fatally shot by a deputy after he fired a single shot at the deputies demanding he put down his weapon, authorities say. ...more

November 20, 2007

SPRING HILL - Hernando County deputies fatally shot a man this afternoon, according to witnesses at the scene. A man's body is in the driveway of a Spring Hill home at 13411 Banyan Road near Ralph Lane, said Hernando sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Black. ...more

November 20, 2007

CLEARWATER - A 17-year-old whom authorities say was shot in the back of the head Friday by a 16-year-old passenger while she was driving has been moved out of the intensive care unit, her father said today. ...more

October 1, 2007

'Dear God, please help my tummy feel good so I can go to school tomorrow.' Many parents would be shocked to hear this prayer, thinking they must have misunderstood - a child praying to go to school, wishing only for a normal day? ...more

September 23, 2007