One of our most distinguished contributors to the Hernando Today letters to the editor posed a most significant question today, asking, "Why do Elected Officials refuse to listen to us?" ...more

October 24, 2009

Edward Graziano wanted to be temporarily released from the Pinellas County Jail so he could attend his father's funeral, but a hearing wasn't scheduled until after the service. Graziano, who faces charges he tried to have his wife, Debbie, killed, still wants the furlough so he can travel to New York to pay his respects and to console his mother, his attorney, John Trevena, said Monday. A hearing on the proposed furlough is scheduled for this morning. ...more

May 12, 2009

Martha Minahan is the opening act. She stands before the group and introduces her husband, Bill. ...more

March 26, 2009

Chris Dyson's personal trainer is a former Marine, which gives you an idea of how the 31-year-old team owner and driver for Dyson Racing feels about his physical fitness. ...more

March 20, 2009

The Bay area's unemployment rate is nearing double-digit levels, with 9.7 percent of the region's work force now jobless. ...more

March 7, 2009

Offers of help are pouring in for a young couple burned out of their house when a pan of french fries caught fire in their kitchen Jan. 5. ...more

January 21, 2009

Larry Bunkley and Tina Henderson figured they had a couple of more months before they had to find a new home, with foreclosure pending on the house they shared with their baby girl off Simmons Loop Road. ...more

January 12, 2009

Judging by the number of toys stacked floor to ceiling, you'd never know the country's in a recession. ...more

December 17, 2008

Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted in Washington for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians plan to surrender to the FBI in Utah today, a person close to the case said, setting up a fight over the trial site. ...more

December 8, 2008

More than a year after the fatal shootings of 17 Iraqi civilians, five decorated military veterans who were Blackwater Worldwide security guards are headed to court in a case that strained diplomatic ties and raised the level of anti-Americanism in Baghdad. ...more

December 6, 2008