TAMPA Ryan Desort's mom, Karol, picked him up from Coleman Middle School and confronted him about a message left on her cell phone. ...more

January 28, 2009

Jasmine St. Clair never imagined the impact her absentee father would have on her 18th birthday. ...more

January 28, 2009

About 112 members of Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Patel Conservatory joined in festivities at the Jan. 19 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in College Hill. ...more

January 28, 2009

Jasmine St. Clair never imagined the impact her absentee father would have on her 18th birthday. ...more

January 28, 2009

Russian giants are at work in local concert halls this weekend. On Friday night Stefan Sanderling and the Florida Orchestra performed a concert of works, both familiar and less so, by Russian composers at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. ...more

January 25, 2009

Russian giants were at work in local concert halls this weekend. On Friday night Stefan Sanderling and The Florida Orchestra performed a concert of works, both familiar and less so, by Russian composers at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. ...more

January 25, 2009

When Ali MacGraw told Ryan O'Neal in "Love Story" that "Love means never having to say you're sorry," she knew that all good things must come to an end. That was in 1970. ...more

January 18, 2009

A proposal for a Riverwalk in downtown Tampa has been around in some form or another since the 1970s. And, through the years, some folks have ridiculed it as a pipe dream, a boondoggle and a waste. ...more

January 17, 2009

Kristen Smith's reign as Florida Strawberry Festival queen is drawing to a close. ...more

January 12, 2009

It's not unusual for the Cezair household to come alive with the sound of music. ...more

January 7, 2009