No one expects 13-year-olds to have their whole lives plotted out. Then again, it's an age where childhood starts to give way as adulthood makes its gradual introduction. Before you or they know it, 13 becomes 16, then 18, then 21 and on to the rest of their lives. ...more

December 11, 2009

The doors at Cynthia Pinckney Ministry's free Thanksgiving feast wouldn't open for more than an hour, but by 10 a.m. there were already 100 people waiting outside the doors at the Boys & Girls Club in Brandon that morning. ...more

December 9, 2009

Volunteers are the backbone of the Florida Strawberry Festival, and the festival expressed its appreciation recently with a banquet in their honor. ...more

December 9, 2009

Gulfside Regional Hospice seeks benefactors to help decorate Trees of Remembrance this holiday season. ...more

December 5, 2009

At the end of Thursday's wake, Juan Martinez and his wife, Rosalina Ramirez, stood in front of the open casket where their 2-year-old son lay. ...more

December 4, 2009

All day today, people came to pay their respects and say prayers at the memorial covered with dozens of candles and teddy bears in memory of 2-year-old Luis Martinez, who was found dead near his home Saturday. ...more

November 29, 2009

Volunteers cooking up turkeys. ...more

November 25, 2009

Thanksgiving is a time to slow down, bond with family and friends, eat and talk turkey. And to give thanks, of course. ...more

November 21, 2009

That's right partner. You can say you were there for that last roundup, the day they drove the cattle through the streets of Tampa on the Old Big Guava Trail. ...more

November 13, 2009

Each pet on this page once belonged to someone who either abandoned or could no longer care for it. ...more

November 11, 2009