Rep. Ed Homan of Tampa rolled out a plan Wednesday that he said would expand Florida's thinning ranks of doctors while improving care of local Medicaid patients. ...more

April 2, 2009

One of the lowest moments of President Bush's second term was his congratulatory slap-on-the-back of former FEMA head Michael Brown - "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" - amid the government's chaotic response to Hurricane Katrina. Many people at the time thought it too bad that Craig Fugate was not in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

March 6, 2009

Florida reserve quarterback Cameron Newton was arrested Friday afternoon for felony charges of burglary, larceny and intimidating a witness, according to an Alachua County police report. ...more

November 22, 2008

The Florida High School Athletic Association has created the "Become An Official" campaign to recruit officials for prep sporting events. ...more

November 4, 2008

Hillsborough County public schools produced more National Merit Scholarship semifinalists than any other school system in Florida, the school district announced Wednesday. ...more

September 11, 2008

Hillsborough County public schools produced more National Merit Scholarship semifinalists than any other school system in Florida, the school district announced today. Sixty-four Hillsborough students won the semifinalist distinction, a 23 percent increase over last year's total of 52. ...more

September 10, 2008

The small town of Lavonia, along Interstate 85 in northeast Georgia, has the right idea about how to handle undesirable businesses that peddle flesh and clutter interstate highways with sexually suggestive billboards: If you can't shut them down legally, buy them out. ...more

September 8, 2008

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Evidence in the case of a confessed killer of five college students in Gainesville in 1990 will be destroyed. ...more

June 19, 2008

Essie Mae Reed, 78, is a Tampa treasure. That's how U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, described her recently when Castor stood on the floor of the House of Representatives to honor the community activist as a champion of the poor. ...more

May 24, 2008

With the Hernando County School Board's recent decision to place the district's future centralized gifted education center at Explorer K-8 - the new, 2,100-student school set to open this August off Northcliffe Boulevard - local officials are banking on the county becoming home to a premier educational program for students with higher-than-average IQs. ...more

February 12, 2008