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Byline: David Basse Kansas Citians enjoy a swinging, take-no-prisoners style of jazz and blues played full-throttle by bands of happy-go-lucky merry-makers seven nights a week--52 weeks a year. Beginning Aug. [...]

Byline: David Basse Vocalist and harmonica player Tom Trashmouth Baker is his own man. He is a walkin' encyclopedia of the blues. He don't dress up, but he is clean. [...]

Byline: David Basse After two plus hours of fast-paced, non-stop action, I left Spencer Theater Friday night with an altered sense of space and time. This highly-anticipated evening of the [...]

Byline: David Basse A group of concerned citizens braved sub-zero temperatures Tuesday evening, gathering at Community Christian Church near the Plaza to hear UMKC law professor Allen Rostron speak on [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE; LUIS PEREZ; Times Staff Writers SEMINOLE -- As a kid, Scott Rose was turned off by school. Teachers turned him on. One fourth-grade teacher lighted his academic [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE; ANDREW MEACHAM; TIMES STAFF WRITER ST. PETERSBURG -- Katharine Ann Lake, the widow of former St. Petersburg Times publisher and baseball booster John B. 'Jack' Lake, died [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- When longtime newspaper feature writer Marian Coe retired, she turned from fact to fiction and found a new audience. Even as she maintained her [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- For years, Ann Mastry Kearney sold real estate. She also helped lead the United Way and the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild and the Sweet [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- For years, Ann Mastry Kearney sold real estate. She also helped lead the United Way and the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild and the Sweet [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rev. C. Curtis Hess used 'door-to-door evangelism' to build the congregation at Central Christian Church, a former colleague said Tuesday. 'He could talk [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- A worried wife wrote the St. Petersburg Times. She and her husband had married in Thailand and the only proof of her marriage was [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- After years of teaching junior college students about government, Charles Shorter Jr. decided to become part of it. In his first bids for public [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE On the eve of memorial services for Julia Campbell, a man suspected of killing the Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines confessed on television. After giving himself [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE On the eve of memorial services for Julia Campbell, a man suspected of killing the Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines confessed on television. After giving himself [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE; MARY JANE PARK ST. PETERSBURG -- Like his father, Bud Rutland sold men's ties. Like his grandfather, he ran banks. Bud Rutland also was a onetime rodeo [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE A pioneering advertising executive, Bill Zemp, collected some of Florida's biggest names for clients. He represented Publix for nearly three decades while burnishing the images of Eckerd [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- Taken with the art in New York and Chicago, Linda S. Harper wanted to see more art donated in St. Petersburg. Sharing her hope, [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- After Marion Snider graduated from college, she wanted to work for a newspaper. She applied to the St. Petersburg Evening Independent, owned and edited [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- When Marion Snider graduated from Sweet Briar College in Virginia, she wanted to work for a newspaper. To win her first job as a [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE ST. PETERSBURG -- Charles L. Stafford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the St. Petersburg Times and its national correspondent for two decades, died at 83.Mr. Stafford died [...]

Byline: JONI JAMES; JANET ZINK; CRAIG BASSE TAMPA -- As he fought for his adopted homeland amid the Battle of the Bulge, John J. Iorio always felt he had cheated [...]

Byline: JONI JAMES; JANET ZINK; CRAIG BASSE TAMPA -- At age 17, as he fought for his adopted homeland amid the Battle of the Bulge, John J. Iorio always felt [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Blurb:+Title: Times Obituaries Editor+Column:+UID: 0419536495+Dr. William C. Wilbur knows something about history. He taught it for 39 years, first at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania and later at [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Blurb: Kenneth Keeton, a professor of German, helped integrate the St. Petersburg college in 1962.+Title: Times Obituaries Editor+Column:+UID: 0419532289+He helped found Eckerd College, integrate its classrooms and [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE; BEN MONTGOMERY Blurb: The dashing lawmaker was a friend to two presidents.+Title: Times Staff Writers+Column:+UID: 0419513188+George A. Smathers wore tailored suits when many Floridians did business in [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE AND BEN MONTGOMERY Blurb: The dashing lawmaker was a friend to two presidents.+Title: Times Staff Writers+Column:+UID: 0419513188+George A. Smathers wore tailored suits when many Floridians did business [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Blurb:+Title: Times Obituaries Editor+Column:+UID: 0419477852+Dr. Henry F. Burke, a former chief of staff at Bay Pines VA Health Care System, has died at 81.Dr. Burke, a heart [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE The woman called Martha F. Otting to report that 'hobbits,' as in the book by J.R.R. Tolkien, were hiding in her closet. What she expected Mrs. Otting [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Over and over, the woman called Martha F. Otting to report that 'hobbits' were hiding in her closet, stealing her lingerie.She said the 'hobbits,' as in the [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE William J. Griswold, a former City Council member whose legacy includes the United States Veterans Memorial in Williams Park, has died at 77.Mr. Griswold, who served on [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Even as a little girl, animals filled Donna Heinrich's life.Her dad owned horses, and there were chickens and other critters on their small spread near Atlanta.Mrs. Heinrich [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Even as a little girl, animals filled Donna Heinrich's life. Her dad owned horses, and there were chickens and other critters on their small spread near Atlanta.Mrs. [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Peter C. Williams, one of the first African-American academics at St. Petersburg Junior College, has died at 93.Mr. Williams, who taught chemistry at SPJC, now St. Petersburg [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE When Anatole Sokolsky was born, the midwife said to his mother, 'He will live a short life.''Weak at birth, he survived several lifetimes of difficulties, wars, poverty [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE When Anatole Sokolsky was born, the midwife said to his mother, 'He will live a short life.''Weak at birth, he survived several lifetimes of difficulties, wars, poverty [...]

Byline: CRISTINA SILVA; CRAIG BASSE To hundreds of Florida artists, gallery owner Evelyn Cobb was regarded as a philanthropist who helped more than a few novices get a break into [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE A 'catcher' in an aerialist act, Glenn Higginbotham swept Connie Waller off her feet.Or was it the other way around?Mr. Higginbotham, a gymnast and assistant coach at [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Retired Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge Fred L. Bryson has died at his home in the mountains of South Carolina. He was 72.Judge Bryson, who stepped down from [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE For the second time in recent weeks, taps will be played for Ralph Riccardi.Nov. 11, friends organized an Veterans Day honor guard for Mr. Riccardi, 99, who [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE A master at solving puzzles, the Smith College graduate fit right in with her assignment as a member of the Navy WAVES.The young lieutenant was assigned to [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE After decades selling new furniture on Central Avenue, Ross Lew opted for the world of antiques.With his brother, he had operated a landmark store that traced its [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Sophia R. 'Yi' Daily, a financial backer for Shorecrest Preparatory School and a former teacher there, has died at 89.Mrs. Daily, once a part owner of the [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Eddie L. Mills, an optician and Democratic Party activist, has died at age 79.Mr. Mills, a small-business champion who once sought a seat in the Legislature, died [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE; WILL VAN SANT Long before ecology became a household word, Mary R. Grizzle wanted clean water in polluted Tampa Bay.The first Republican woman elected to the Florida [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE; WILL VAN SANT Long before ecology became a household word, Mary R. Grizzle wanted clean water in polluted Tampa Bay.The first Republican woman elected to the Florida [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE A gifted Southern cook, Annie Wright fed thousands of hungry diners in her day.For decades, with her husband, Wilbur, she served up soul food like collards, black-eyed [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE; MELANIE AVE A small-town boy, Tom Larkin wanted to be a small-town pastor, the kind who would know every parishioner by his voice in the confessional.Instead, he [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE As teenager Frank Holmes fished off a San Francisco pier, he watched in awe as Army Air Corps P-26 fighters soared a few hundred feet above the [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Armand 'Sandy' Burke, a former mayor and City Council member whose roller-coaster political career kept him in the spotlight for decades, has died at 80.Mr. Burke, a [...]

Byline: CRAIG BASSE Ralph Miller Jr. was a baseball guy with his eye on the ball. And the bats.As a promoter of minor-league baseball, luring fans into the stands was [...]