Didn't plan on missing that anniversary deadline. Of course I didn't plan to be still sitting here at the Type and Gripe factory after 40 years either. My mom is still waiting for me to get out and find a real job, or at least something respectable. ...more

October 28, 2009

The Weather Channel plans to show movies for the first time in its 27-year history. First up? "The Perfect Storm." ...more

October 20, 2009

Germany celebrated the anniversary of its reunification Saturday with a performance featuring a pair of giant marionettes suspended by cranes marching through downtown. The spectacle, performed by France's Royale de Luxe theater company, culminated with the two embracing at the Brandenburg Gate - reuniting on the former dividing line between East and West Berlin. ...more

October 4, 2009

A Tampa landmark commemorated 104 years in business Sunday with its annual 1905 Day celebration. ...more

September 21, 2009

This is just a thought in reference to the media's priorities. ...more

August 21, 2009

A white-bearded 55-year-old Texan has won the 2009 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest in this island city. ...more

July 27, 2009

Army Sgt. Samuel Valdez has been missing since he fell overboard in a Feb. 22 training exercise, but he will never be forgotten, friends, family members and fellow soldiers say. ...more

July 20, 2009

Well, we've done it again. We have spent another year in freedom and opportunity - arguing all the while about how free, how much opportunity and the best way to guarantee both - and arrived back at the anniversary of the founding of our nation. We tend to take this for granted but definitely shouldn't. ...more

July 4, 2009

Army Reserve Spc. Martin Barbas, a Zephyrhills resident, has been invited to Washington, D.C., to re-enlist at the U.S. Capitol. ...more

April 22, 2009

Wounded by a gunman who sprayed bullets through their class at Virginia Tech, Katelyn Carney and Derek O'Dell barred the door so he couldn't return. They were among the students who returned to the campus Thursday for the second anniversary of the slayings. They participated in a 3.2-mile race to honor the 32 people killed April 16, 2007, by student Seung Hui-Choe. "We're celebrating their lives, but remembering, too," O'Dell said. ...more

April 17, 2009