Charleston is a walker's paradise, with narrow streets winding past 250-year-old mansions, sassy Southern restaurants and antique shops. At the Market, stroll through an open-air collection of small shops and flea market-style booths hawking everything from she-crab soup mixes to photographs of the Holy City's famed decorative iron gates designed by renowned African-American blacksmith Philip Simmons. ...more

March 15, 2009

Most of us in Sun City Center are retired, right? We should be taking it easy, right? At our age we should have learned to be courteous and kind to each other, right? Well, something's not working quite right. I've only been flipped a "splendid digit" twice in my life, and both times were in our town. Once was by a gentleman who didn't like it that I had to screech my brakes to avoid hitting him as he turned his golf cart left in front of me from the right lane. The other time was by, pardon the expression, a little old lady. ...more

November 12, 2008

WEST BRADENTON — She had a hard time getting by even before a murder suspect smashed her car one night near the interstate. ...more

June 23, 2008

Dear Abby: I am a 38-year-old woman. My fiance of five years, "Troy," and I live together and are the parents of a 5-month-old baby girl. ...more

May 11, 2008

PALM HARBOR - Peter Caruana was sleeping early today when his girlfriend woke him up. She had heard a screech, looked out their second-story window and saw a pickup truck strike their apartment building down below, he said. ...more

May 6, 2008

For an adult sitting through the 3-D Hannah Montana concert film, it's impossible not to be overwhelmed - but not by the piercing screech of thousands of frantic 9-year-olds, the crisp digital imagery or the catchiness of the Disney star's peppy tunes. ...more

February 3, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - A teenager was critically injured Tuesday when his pickup slammed into a 7-Eleven sign near Lockwood Ridge and DeSoto roads. ...more

November 28, 2007