"Live and let live" masks a shallow philosophy. If it worked, we could loose all prisoners. Four law officers murdered in Washington this past week would be alive. Instead of learning from tragedies, we foster them. Our solutions resemble weakening our coffee so much we might as well drink mud. ...more

December 3, 2009

The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for the ringleader of a mass killing over an Xbox video game system. ...more

November 26, 2009

A Miami federal judge has imposed a 13 1/2-year sentence on the convicted ringleader of a plot to stage terror attacks against Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices. ...more

November 20, 2009

A production that earned its playwright what many consider one of the world's largest student literary prizes is about to debut in Florida on stage at Tampa Bay Tech. ...more

November 4, 2009

Participants in an oxycodone ring that was run from the car repair shop of a man dubbed "The King of Hudson" are going to federal prison. ...more

October 28, 2009

Val Perry loves writing, and she loves a good book. Most of all, though, she is motivated to help other people discover their own stories and to learn how to write them. ...more

March 18, 2009

This may ring as odd, considering the auspicious, history-shaping event lurking less than a fortnight ahead, but evidence suggests most of us still harbor that most fundamental characteristic that defines Americans: the desire to be left alone. ...more

January 7, 2009

Millions of hockey viewers tune in each week to "Hockey Night in Canada," an institution on Saturday night television throughout Canada. So when gossip or rumors spill out on the Satellite Hot Stove segment during the second intermission, it often becomes gospel around the hockey world. ...more

November 20, 2008

The two Apollo Beach restaurant employees who were attacked and raped Aug. 16 are working to reassemble their lives, but "the healing will be long-term and extensive," said Jacey Laundree, the sister of one of the victims. ...more

August 29, 2008

The two Apollo Beach restaurant employees who were attacked and raped Aug. 16 are working to reassemble their lives, but "the healing will be long-term and extensive," said Jacey Laundree, the sister of one of the victims. ...more

August 29, 2008