TAMPA Rana Younas got the call early today from a nervous friend – a Pakistani-American like him – from Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was dead, assassinated by a suicide bomber just 12 days before the national elections. ...more

December 27, 2007

As a child in the 1940s, trains were an integral part of Ellen Brown's life. She lived in a small town in the Catskills, so the comings and goings of the passenger trains appealed to her childhood curiosity. ...more

December 10, 2007

Deputies are trying to find out who killed a man found dead late Friday inside an apartment complex located near the University of South Florida campus. The identity of the man, thought to be 28-years-old, has not been released, said Debbie Carter, a Hillsborough sheriff's spokeswoman. ...more

December 8, 2007

The daughter of a Minnesota farmer, Jeanne Landsittel said she was raised to trust in the things Mother Nature provides. ...more

December 8, 2007

TAMPA - Clutching a mock-up of a sign that bears her father's name, Ronnee Harrison smiled and imagined his reaction to having an intersection he patrolled named in his honor. ...more

December 5, 2007

As a child in the 1940s, trains were an integral part of Ellen Brown's life. She lived in a small town in the Catskills, so the comings and goings of the passenger trains appealed to her childhood curiosity. ...more

December 5, 2007

As a child in the 1940s, trains were an integral part of Ellen Brown's life. She lived in a small town in the Catskills, so the comings and goings of the passenger trains appealed to her childhood curiosity. ...more

December 5, 2007

Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Harrison spent 28 years trying to keep Hillsborough County roads safe, and next week the county will rename the stretch of road where he was killed this year in his honor. ...more

December 1, 2007

BRANDON - Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Harrison spent 28 years trying to keep Hillsborough County roads safe, and next week the county will rename the stretch of road where he was killed this year in his honor. ...more

November 30, 2007

"The Faraday Girls: A Novel," by Monica McInerney (Ballantine Reader's Circle, $13.95) ...more

November 25, 2007