"I wanted to cry. There just wasn't time. I wanted to hear his speech." Pam Tebow, Tim's mother ...more

December 9, 2007

How do you know when you meet the real deal? When they know your sister's name and which vegetables you haven't been eating. ...more

December 8, 2007

Regarding "Ybor City Parking Meter-Free For Month" (Metro, Nov. 30): Twenty-one thousand dollars in revenue? That's what the city is making a month on parking in Ybor? ...more

December 3, 2007

New Orleans might be known for its superior Cajun food, but the overwhelming image most people have of Louisiana's most famous city is partying on Bourbon Street. ...more

December 2, 2007

Concejal pide saber sexo y raza de posibles despedidos ...more

November 30, 2007

AVON PARK — Individualized Study Services sounds like an educational plan tailored for the particular student. In a way that is exactly what it is, but years ago ISS was short for In School Suspension. So as that former name implies, it's a program for students with disciplinary problems that are not serious enough to merit an Out of School Suspension or, at the secondary level, assignment to The Academy at Youth Care Lane alternative program. But at the elementary level some schools, such as Lake Country Elementary, don't have ISS. ...more

November 26, 2007

About three years ago, Frances Hereford and her then-neighbor Pam Justice opened Southern Grace, a shop selling gifts and accessories in a former residence on U.S. 41. Although it no longer houses a family, it has all the charms of home. ...more

November 24, 2007

The city is starting a public awareness campaign to encourage residents to report problems with fire hydrants. ...more

November 24, 2007

AVON PARK — Riding the school bus home, a 5-year-old kindergartner cried when his mother wasn't home one day to greet him. The boy should have been at his school's after-school program, but was sent home on a school bus. Fortunately, a stay-at-home neighbor spotted the child and notified his mother. But about a month later it happened again; the kindergartner was bused home when he should have remained at school. Once again the neighbor took the child in. A call to the school district resulted in a "lackadaisical" response, according to Stacy Sorton, whose son attends Avon Elementary School. ...more

November 19, 2007

Four years ago, Pam Prysner and her family moved from busy Westchase in northwest Hillsborough County to a small horse ranch in rural Lithia. ...more

November 17, 2007