England's commissioner for children and a civil liberties group joined in a campaign Tuesday to ban high-frequency devices intended to drive away kids who congregate outside shops and in other areas. ...more

February 13, 2008

My name is Albin Pelski. I am the president of Toby the Clown Foundation located in Lake Placid. Keith "Toby" Stokes started Toby's Clown Alley and Toby the Clown Foundation many years ago. Since then we have graduated over 700 clowns from our clown school. ...more

January 24, 2008

Imagine this most improbable of situations: Just under half of the people you know of, in this country, don't really care for you, or they dislike you in varying degrees and intensities, including hatred. About 10 percent of the rest of the people you know of think the sun rises and falls because of you, but most of them want something from you, which you probably can't give them, at which time they will fall into the remaining group that think you are "Okay," but they too want something from you. You have just graduated from an unheard of college with only a 2.5 GPA. You are a single woman pregnant with sextuplets, and you already know they all will be born prematurely and with special needs for life, and all their needs are different. ...more

January 11, 2008

It's holiday shopping time, and you're once again scurrying about looking for something besides the usual earrings, ties, shirts or sweaters. ...more

November 24, 2007

PUNTA GORDA - An act of peace turned sour Thursday when a Scott Street man rehung a noose beneath the faded Confederate flag in his yard. The flag and noose had been a fixture in Michael Whiteaker's yard for about three years, until a black neighbor persuaded him to take the noose down last week. ...more

October 26, 2007

Karina Van Houten of Port Richey takes Charley Reese to task for anti-Jewish, anti-Israel attitude. ...more

October 24, 2007

When Steve Austin talks about his current tour's 'death toll' and suggests 'bringing dead animals' to his show, there's a temptation to take him at face value. ...more

October 5, 2007

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that the continued flow of weapons, suicide bombers and terrorism funding into his country would result in 'disastrous consequences' for the region and the world. ...more

September 27, 2007

Jean Rogers of Oldsmar says today's leaders don't care about people. ...more

September 4, 2007