Organizers for the Carrollwood Players are banking on bingo to help boost their economic outlook. ...more

October 21, 2009

Throughout history, people have been oppressed to the point of desperation. Once the pain of enduring any longer becomes severe enough, a backlash begins to brew. ...more

February 12, 2009

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

December 19, 2008

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Fans of the holiday classic "A Christmas Story" are celebrating the film's 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made. ...more

November 30, 2008

Pete Newell, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who won an NCAA championship and Olympic gold medal and later tutored some of the game's greatest big men, died Monday. He was 93. ...more

November 18, 2008

George Selvie's wonderful life is not an accident. His rise to football glory is not a coincidence. ...more

December 25, 2007

On a base near a seemingly mythical place called Babylon, surrounded by flatness and dust and nothing familiar, soldiers are about to celebrate Christmas American-style. ...more

December 24, 2007

Turn on your television this holiday season and chances are the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" will be playing on some channel. ...more

December 24, 2007

Christmas is a week from Tuesday. Wow, that means just 10 shopping days left. One if you put things off til Christmas Eve. Considering the increase in the junk e-mail I've been getting, it looks like the 10-day count is just about right. By the way, is it my imagination or is the mailperson-delivered junk mail on the decline as e-mail usage increases? If you haven't already done so it's time to get out all those Christmas movies you have stored away on DVD and VHS. My favorite, I think, is the classic "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. Those are two guys that the word suave was coined for. The movie, in my opinion, is much better for the season than "It's a Wonderful Life." Getting back to e-mails, a friend of mine told me that when he returned from a week's vacation recently he had over 800 of them waiting to be opened. I told him I haven't received 800 messages since Al Gore invented the Internet. "Well," my friend then admitted, "half of them were checking to see how adequate one of my body parts was." Really now. ...more

December 15, 2007

If Lucille Crum could give a lesson in longevity it would be to play lots of golf, never smoke or drink, live a good clean life and avoid extremely cold weather. ...more

November 10, 2007