LAKE PLACID — Over the past several years, street fights between young women in the Highway Park district became so common that the neighborhood's residents knew something had to be done. "Fistfights were a major problem," said coordinator Felecia Samuels about the southern Lake Placid district. "Things were becoming more violent. There wasn't a day that went by where you didn't hear about women fighting in the street." To deal with the female-on-female violence, the Highway Park Neighborhood Preservation and Enhancement District Council decided to come up with a "Young Sisters in Unity" group, which it passed along to residents. ...more

December 16, 2007

Davin Joseph is pleased when a plan comes together. The Buccaneers guard has just returned from a community event that he inspired and that he along with his best friends — the Buccaneers offensive line — made happen. ...more

December 12, 2007

Zach Bonner showed no sign of fatigue Monday morning as he spoke on the steps of the old state Capitol, the end point of his 280-mile march from Seffner. The Valrico fourth-grader started walking to Tallahassee on Nov. 3 to raise awareness of youth homelessness. ...more

November 27, 2007

TAMPA As he settled in for Thanksgiving dinner, Robert Weiner took a moment to reflect on something that can only be explained as a gift from the gods. ...more

November 24, 2007

While loosening your belt after Thanksgiving dinner, you may want to clip a pedometer to it. The reason: Wearing a step counter leads to weight loss and lower blood pressure, according to new research released this week. The researchers found that a pedometer is an unusually good motivator to get people to walk more. ...more

November 23, 2007

Chris Huston was toward the back of the line of early shoppers camped outside the Best Buy last Thanksgiving. ...more

November 23, 2007

Last year, Richard Paey ate a cold Thanksgiving dinner at Tomoka Correctional Institution with his cellmate, a convicted murderer who had killed a previous cellmate. ...more

November 23, 2007

I survived another Thanksgiving with all the trimmings. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage has outdone herself once again with our Thanksgiving dinner. I still do not know how she accomplishes this feat. Each year her dinner is more fabulous than the last. ...more

November 22, 2007

It was Wednesday morning and Reiko Pearson was briskly pacing back and forth across her kitchen floor with utensils in hand. ...more

November 22, 2007

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