TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Joe DiPaula didn't grow up dreaming of owning a bead distribution business, and he doesn't romanticize the reason why he bought The Bead Warehouse a little more than a year ago. ...more

November 1, 2007

TAMPA - A 24-year-old man has been arrested on heroin trafficking charges, accused of having packages of heroin mailed to Tampa from Massachusetts, according to criminal report affidavits. ...more

October 18, 2007

I am pleased to announce that the Toys for Tots Foundation in Quantico, Va., ( www.toysfortots.org), has cleared all Toys for Tots program coordinators to conduct our customary toy drive and distributions. ...more

October 15, 2007

As sunlight poked through the redwoods and a fiddler played 18th-century Scottish tunes, residents gathered recently for the Canyon Payphone Jubilee, a celebration that could occur, perhaps, only in this isolated, independent community on the eastern face of the Oakland hills. ...more

September 7, 2007