Michael Kruse

Last year, a week before Thanksgiving, a man in Cape Canaveral bought in a foreclosure auction a two-story st…

High inside the Orlando Magic's just-opened, half-billion-dollar basketball arena, behind a closed door label…

The rise and fall (and rise) of a sports-talk radio pioneer By Michael Kruse on Nanci Donnellan, better known…

The 1993 DUI arrest of Jim Greer started as a 911 call from a woman in a drunken panic. A police officer resp…

He's fast, he's strong, he's smart. He's uncaged and to this point he's uncatchable. The monkey on the loose …

At the Redneck Yacht Club, mudding trucks and the muddin' lifestyle are the attraction. For mudding videos an…

A journey to Daytona, the heart of Nascar, the one true American sport at the dawn of the post-America world

Steve Dykes/Getty Images There is next to no reason the University of Oregon should have a good football team…

Behind the scenes with The Franchise's dysfunctional Miami Marlins By Michael Kruse on The old Marlins mostly…

Last March, Davidson's Stephen Curry became an instant national celebrity. Now he returns for his junior seas…

The crowd gathered on the grass around the man with the bag. In the bag was a 13-foot Burmese python. This wa…

STARKE - The state executed Robert Waterhouse on Wednesday night, more than 32 years after he beat, raped and…

WESLEY CHAPEL - All around the world, all day on Saturday, people mocked perplexed believers who watched and …

ELLENTON - Darkness here. The brake lights stretched half a mile to the exit to the mall. These people had le…

SARASOTA - Last spring a respected detective for this city's police department went to the local courthouse a…

For their own good Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be strai…

For their own good Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be strai…

There were two boys, Scott and Seth Avett, in Concord. And then there were THE AVETT BROTHERS. This is the st…

Nineteen families found a raw barrier island in the 1970s and made it theirs. They took advantage of the hard…

Al Austin shuffled one recent Saturday morning onto the green-gray clay of the tennis courts at the Tampa Yac…

The teens hid their bicycles in the bushes and approached the house in the dark on the dead-end road. * The 1…

Few things disturb us like the sexual abuse of a child. But what if it's not true? By MICHAEL KRUSE Times Sta…