Thursday was a day to remember for about 140 second-graders at Lowry Elementary School. ...more

April 17, 2009

The Detroit Lions will retire the number 93 for the 2009 football season in memory of player Corey Smith, one of three men lost when their fishing boat capsized off the Florida Gulf Coast three weeks ago. ...more

March 22, 2009

A Tampa woman finally is able to reopen her diner, a favorite among truckers and bikers out by the state fairgrounds. ...more

December 19, 2008

For the past two decades, holiday singalongs have broken out in downtown Tampa as Christmas approaches. ...more

December 19, 2008

The underdogs always had Father Joseph Doyle in their corner. If you had trouble paying tuition at Jesuit High School, where he served as president for 12 years, he found a way to make up the difference. ...more

December 9, 2008

A 4-year-old Brandon girl is on a long road to recovery from the crash that killed her mother, and her grandmother thinks she'll be walking by February, beating therapists' expectations. ...more

December 4, 2008

Arielle Serrano, a Plant High student hit by a car two years ago in front of the school, died June 21. She was 17. ...more

June 28, 2008

In reference to the argument about evolution vs. intelligent design, I would say that evolution does seem to have some merit, but intelligent design holds more "proof" for me. No one has ever been able to prove to me that we are here simply at random, that the lungs that breathe the oxygen that feeds my blood that pumps through my heart then traveling to my brain that tell my hand to write this letter is simply random! Or that the sperm that fertilized the egg that divided the cells that became the embryo that turned into my beautiful daughter was random. That this life that I live has no real significance, and that when I die that's it, nothing more! ...more

January 31, 2008

I truly mean it when I say teaching a teenager to drive ranks right up there with potty training as one of parenting's finest experiences. ...more

January 18, 2008

Dear Abby: I have enjoyed reading the occasional letters people write you about the acts of kindness they have experienced. I would like to share one that happened to me. ...more

October 28, 2007