LAND O' LAKES - Each year, parents in search of a quality preschool can use a rating tool provided by the state to measure how well some preschools prepare children for kindergarten. ...more

April 2, 2009

With apologies to Francis P. Church, who was editor of the New York Sun in 1897 when "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" was first published. ...more

December 24, 2008

Volunteers – including Sheriff Richard Nugent - will spend 24 hours or longer in the dog kennel to raise money and awareness for the Humane Society of the Nature Coast. ...more

February 15, 2008

The 'waiting game' isn't a game at all. It's torture for those who sit and wait by computers for word from soldiers in Iraq, holding onto e-mails like life-lines. And when those e-mails stop suddenly, cold fear sets in. Then come the words that no one wants to hear - the soldier has been injured. For family members and friends, the waiting becomes physical pain. ...more

September 25, 2007