TAMPA The Academies, a not-for-profit public charter school for students with learning-related disabilities, hosted its second annual Family Abilities Information Rally on Oct. 17. Yes! of America United co-hosted the event along with Hillsborough County. ...more

November 25, 2009

An arrest warrant affidavit says the fight that led to the stabbing death of University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard began when one of his teammates "disrespected" a woman at a school-sponsored dance. ...more

November 10, 2009

TALLAHASSEE (AP) - Officials from Florida's public universities across the state are preparing for disaster - just in case. ...more

August 2, 2009

U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., won't face a perjury charge over statements he made to state lawmakers investigating how he got his job, but the junior senator still faces the task of salvaging his political future and shaking the stigma of his link to the disgraced former governor who put him in office. ...more

June 20, 2009

Florida's circuit court clerks have won a compromise in the state Senate, killing part of a bill that would have taken away their power to collect fees and perform other duties. ...more

March 19, 2009

Recently in Stamford, Conn., a chimpanzee named Travis was shot and killed after he mauled a friend of his owner. The chimpanzee lived with a widow, eating lobster and ice cream at the table, wearing human clothes and entertaining himself with a computer and television. ...more

March 2, 2009

It is John Purcell's mission to keep the Salvation Army Family Store looking as tidy as its palm tree-lined landscaping. ...more

February 7, 2009

You can get a rough estimate of the calories you will expend in many activities with a simple formula developed by physiologists using a yardstick known as the Metabolic Equivalent, or MET. ...more

January 17, 2009

A transient turned himself in today, saying he had strangled another man after the pair had spent the day drinking on New Year's Eve, the Pinellas Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 8, 2009

A Tampa man has been charged with swindling a woman he met on a dating Web site out of about $60,000, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 8, 2009