There is a story often told about University of Florida women's basketball coach Amanda Butler from her Lady Gators playing days between 1990 and 1994. The fiery point guard had a shoulder that would often dislocate during practice. Instead of calling for a trainer, Butler would simply smash the shoulder against the nearest wall until it popped back into place. ...more

March 5, 2009

Edward C. Johnson of New Port Richey was disturbed to read that the mothers of the first babies born in Pasco, Hillsborough and Hernando counties in 2009 were unwed young women. ...more

January 10, 2009

Miami is a hotbed of fraud, according to a Miami Herald investigative article. Say what? Miami? Fraud? Of course Miami is known as a hotbed of illegal activity and has been for some time. But this is different on some level. The fraud uncovered by the FBI, according to the Herald report, involves billions of Medicare dollars stolen from taxpayers. ...more

August 20, 2008

It'll be up to a judge or jury to separate fact from emotion in hearing a lawsuit that blames a husband and wife for not saving a man's life when he was stricken during dinner two years ago. But the simple fact that the complaint was filed is chilling. ...more

June 20, 2008

Suggestion Has Merit Regarding "Jim Norman's Disappointing Focus" (Our Opinion, Feb. 20): ...more

February 26, 2008

The American Farm Bureau Federation must be grocery shopping on another planet because it estimates you can feed Thanksgiving dinner to a family of 10 for $42.26. ...more

November 22, 2007

Talk Is Cheap The Zephyrhills Jaycees had a booth on Veterans Day with an assortment of Christmas cards for citizens to sign for the troops. The booth was on the main thoroughfare, with the cards displayed on the tables alongside numerous pens and chairs in the shade so people could be comfortable while signing the cards. ...more

November 19, 2007

Is offering freer access to alcoholic beverages the best way to attract the visitors we want to come to downtown Sebring? If that is so, it is a sad commentary on what our community has become. George Sebring, our founder, would be turning over in his grave. ...more

October 26, 2007

Please Help Victims Regarding your article 'Boarding Home Records Lead To Grandmother' (Nation/World, Oct. 7) and the 'financial maneuvering' going on, you might want to send a photographer to the grandmother's 'castle' and see the two new 'turrets' being built. ...more

October 13, 2007

Residents of Darby, St. Joseph and other areas in rural northeast Pasco County were rightfully alarmed about plans by a developer to build 300 homes on 475 acres just west of Interstate 75. The land is in a rural protection area, where many homes are on tracts of 5 and 10 acres and even larger, and the requested density was highly inappropriate. ...more

September 14, 2007