11: 25 a.m.: Marlise Tolbert-Jones usually likes to stay out of the limelight, but she is front and center among a crowd of Barack Obama supporters outside the polling place at Progress Village Park. ...more

November 4, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama proposes a long list of tax gifts to help you to go to college, get a job, send your child to day care, buy a house and save for retirement. And after you retire he wants you to stop paying taxes. ...more

October 26, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Cooperation between Leto High School culinary students and early childhood development classes earned enthusiastic reviews when one 4-year-old spotted his full plate at a recent lunch. ...more

October 22, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Cooperation between Leto High School culinary students and early childhood development classes earned enthusiastic reviews when one 4-year-old spotted his full plate at a recent lunch. ...more

October 22, 2008

As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day care centers. The decision should be made by parents, not the state, they contend. ...more

October 17, 2008

I let Nathan play hooky from day care a couple of weeks ago, and we hung out in town doing fun stuff such as getting cappuccino at Starbucks, shopping for a new fry pan at Williams-Sonoma and lunching on chicken confit at Derek's Culinary Creations in Sarasota. OK, I admit the fun was for me - but, hey, he felt lucky already that I didn't make him do the laundry in exchange for ditching day care. ...more

September 23, 2008

The lockdown of five Sarasota schools was lifted at 4:30 p.m. today after police arrested two armed men they say entered a home on Victoria Avenue and attacked a person inside. ...more

September 16, 2008

A day care at the John Calvin Presbyterian Church opened this week, and that means some neighbors will have to move. ...more

September 6, 2008

A day care at the John Calvin Presbyterian Church opened this week, and that means some neighbors will have to move. An apartment complex across the street from the Seminole Heights church houses 10 sex offenders, four of whom aren't allowed to live near the day care, said Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. ...more

September 5, 2008

So that's why the ice cream man is in such a good humor. Deputies say they cited the driver of the Hokey Pokey ice cream truck Thursday for possession of marijuana and a drug-smoking pipe. ...more

July 19, 2008