When she was in her mid-20s, Denise Grimsley, now 48 and a registered nurse, never dreamed she would get involved in politics. That changed when her father became ill in the mid-1990s and she stepped in to run his petroleum and convenience store businesses. ...more

October 12, 2008

WASHINGTON - Republican John McCain, trailing in polls and searching for a way to gain ground, assailed Democratic rival Barack Obama on Friday in a sharply worded TV ad that said: "When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied." ...more

October 10, 2008

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that questions about Democratic rival Barack Obama's association with a former war protester linked to Vietnam-era bombings are part of a broader issue of honesty. ...more

October 10, 2008

The city will demolish a nearly 70-year-old abandoned house where police found a woman's badly decomposed body in March. ...more

September 19, 2008

Who says exercise has to be dull? Not any of the people in the Zumba fitness classes at Gills Family YMCA in Trinity and the New Port Richey SunTrust YMCA. ...more

September 14, 2008

"The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British," by Sarah Lyall (Norton, $24.95) ...more

September 7, 2008

Global warming has probably made Hurricane Gustav a bit stronger and wetter, some top scientists said Sunday, but the specific connection between climate change and stronger hurricanes remains an issue of debate. ...more

September 1, 2008

It's hard to find a pony in the pile of sky-high oil prices, given the inflationary impact on the price of everything. ...more

September 1, 2008

A year after aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett vanished on a Labor Day flight over western Nevada, friends and admirers are waging a new search for some sign of him in an area of rugged mountains. ...more

September 1, 2008

From the outside, James Cadicamo appeared to be a relatively ordinary nightclub manager. ...more

August 7, 2008