The city will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday to discuss removing 21/2-feet-tall walls that block traffic around Fremont Linear Park. ...more

June 28, 2008

New Lightning coach Barry Melrose is famous for his mullet hairstyle, a coif that comes with its own slogan: "Business in the front, party in the back." Popularized in the 1970s and '80s, a mullet is characterized by short hair on the top and sides, long hair in the back. Though Melrose trimmed up the back of his for Tuesday's big introduction, he will always and forever be "The Mullet." ...more

June 25, 2008

Marijuana is more than twice as potent as it was 25 years ago, according to a new study. ...more

June 13, 2008

A Sunday evening fire gutted Tampa Bay Hardware, the oldest hardware store in the city and a mainstay of the Seminole Heights neighborhood for decades. ...more

June 9, 2008

Chinese officials said Monday that the country's one-child policy exempts families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the country's devastating earthquake. ...more

May 27, 2008

As a resident of the Kansas City area through the 1970s and early '80s and a fan of the Royals during their rivalry years with the colorful but bizarre Yankees, suffice it to say the George Steinbrenner was far from the top of my list of admired or respected people. ...more

February 10, 2008

Earl L. Butz, who orchestrated a major change in federal farm policy as secretary of agriculture in the 1970s but came to be remembered more for a vulgar racial comment that brought about his resignation during the 1976 presidential election race, died Saturday in Kensington, Md. Butz, who lived in West Lafayette, Ind., was 98. ...more

February 4, 2008

Easy Answer In response to: "Is There Life In Spring Hill?" Perhaps you should have kept pondering on whether or not to put your opinion into print. ...more

February 3, 2008

Richard Geller added a 1958 Ford Del Rio Ranch Wagon to his vehicle collection about two years ago. ...more

January 31, 2008

Undeterred by controversy, a mysterious visitor paid his annual tribute at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early Saturday, placing three red roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac before stealing away into the darkness. ...more

January 20, 2008