The best Christmas gift for the Santana family wasn't under a tree, it was at Tampa International Airport: The return of Ernest Jose Santana - known as Ernie - away from his family for 20 months, including 15 in Iraq. ...more

December 26, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG Twenty-four mentally challenged people will have to find a new place to stay after a sprinkler system flooded their rooms on Christmas Day ...more

December 25, 2008

Christmas came early for four children this year. On Wednesday, four bicycles were delivered to Tanjaliyah Johnson, Demartre and Roger Loculien, of Sebring, and Dallas Goins, of Lake Placid. ...more

December 25, 2008

Officials at Farmworkers Self-Help Inc. distributed toys and food baskets Wednesday to about 320 families served by the Tommytown-based agency. ...more

December 25, 2008

A 10-year-old girl died Tuesday afternoon after an 11-year-old boy visiting her Fort Meade home for Christmas shot her with a gun found in the bedroom, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. ...more

December 24, 2008

Santa spent time with local kids before started to pack his sleigh for his big night. ...more

December 24, 2008

Alya Schwieterman, 2, opens one of the gifts. ...more

December 24, 2008

Just the other day my mother was robbed in a grocery store parking lot. ...more

December 24, 2008

Christmas came early this year for the Redlands Christian Migrant Association Academy. ...more

December 24, 2008