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The splash pad at Pratt Park will be open for business in time for the city's Independence Day festivities.

Last Wednesday morning, Ben Kitoko had no idea what 'biodiversity' meant. He didn't have any special interest in science, and liked the environment but didn't know exactly why.

A $5,000 reward is being offered for anyone who offers information that leads to an arrest or conviction of suspects involved in a series of break-ins and vandalism at Olander Park over the last two months, that included an arson incident there Monday.

Prudence Hockley in a school photo. She was beaten Dec. 24, 2011 and died Christmas Day at Harborview Medical Center.

A Pinellas County jury listened Tuesday to the vivid and horrifying story of how Stacia Berman's body was found - wrapped in a blanket, plastic bags covering her head, floating in St. Petersburg's Lake Maggiore with two alligators swimming nearby.

Father's Day, a holiday which falls on the third Sunday of June, is less popular than other holidays in China as fewer fathers receive gifts than mothers.

DeRosa was convicted in the stabbing deaths of 73-year-old Curtis Plummer and 70-year-old Gloria Plummer almost 13 years ago.

Benjamin Hill Park Committee members Andy Deveau, right, and Butch Farrar spent several weeks air-chiseling the bottom of the pool, chipping off 30 years' accumulation of rubber paint so that cracks in the Gunite surface could be caulked and repainted.

Please do not try to sell my Father a clock. It's not that he won't buy it, it's just... he has enough clocks Monday, June 10, 2013 This didn't start as something for Memorial Day, but, well, it ended up that way.

Actress and mother-of-two Sarah Michelle Gellar is joining March of Dimes and the Sounds of Pertussis campaign to help raise awareness about pertussis, also known as whooping cough, and the importance of vaccinating the entire family.

In many parts of the world there is no better time to work on your mojo than on the longest day of the year.

Burt and Virginia fight over all the time he's spending at a gay bar in Monday's 'Raising Hope' episode, titled 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do.'

A playground memorial is being planned to remember four young children killed in a house fire in eastern Pennsylvania on Mother's Day.

A man involved in a New Year's Day crash that killed 20-year-old UNF student Dara Kusiv is now in the Duval County jail.

The House, eager to do something about record high gasoline prices in advance of the Memorial Day weekend, voted narrowly Wednesday, May 23, 2007 to approve stiff penalties for those found guilty of gasoline price gouging.

A man charged with murder in the October shooting death of another man in downtown Anchorage made his first court appearance in the case Saturday.

Oscar Mayer is offering a luxury bacon box set as the ultimate expression of love.

The dad of Cerys Potter who died in a rafting accident in Turkey has spoken out after four men were jailed over her death On a day when the Lions called three new players into their squad, former Wales wing Shane Williams comes out of retirement to join the 2013 party in Australia Welsh actor - and Wales' sexiest man 2012 - Aneurin Barnard is ... (more)

It's Father's Day, which, at least according to retailers, means it's time for ... A combination toilet paper/iPad holder.

Parents raise, shelter, feed and nurture us. They pay for years of baseball equipment and training so that we can break their hearts when, as teenagers, we decide to quit playing.