When hard times reached the Schneider household in central Oregon, longtime stay-at-home mom Colleen Schneider took action - getting a job at Subway to offset a drop in her husband's earnings. What she didn't do was also notable: She didn't stop home schooling her three teenage children. ...more

March 8, 2009

A 47-year-old Tampa woman abandoned two teenage children for about a week while she smoked crack, Tampa police say. ...more

March 3, 2009

On the British version of "The World's Strictest Parents," slovenly disrespectful slacker kids from the United Kingdom are packed off to spend some quality time with surrogate parents in other countries who practice tough love. ...more

February 27, 2009

A new reality show, "World's Strictest Parents," is auditioning parents and teens Saturday on Clearwater Beach. ...more

February 26, 2009

Every year Mayor Joe Affronti looks forward to the free, family-friendly Winter Wonderland, an annual event at Riverhills Park that is hosted by the city. ...more

December 10, 2008

David Schoelles went from classroom to classroom at Explorer K-8 on Friday so students can put a face with the name of their interim principal. ...more

November 8, 2008

"Hold Tight," by Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95) To read this fast-paced novel is to hope that the events Harlan Coben describes will never, ever happen to you. But maybe they will, and that's the point. ...more

July 27, 2008

After more than 5 1/2 years as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas, forced to march for hours while chained and to sleep on the floors of drug labs and under rats nests, Keith Stansell is finally home. ...more

July 13, 2008

Cassandra Serine and her two teenage children already were planning to leave Thomasville, Ga. They say they wanted more from their lives and their church. They found it on God TV, live from Lakeland. ...more

May 10, 2008

Evangelist Todd Bentley's revival in Lakeland is moving spirits and keeps moving the closing date, lengthening the Pentecostal "Florida Outpouring" as interest and attendance mount. ...more

May 8, 2008