A proposed settlement between the city council and two advertising companies will allow the city to maintain aesthetics in heavily traveled areas, city officials say. ...more

December 18, 2008

TAMPA -- More than two months after horseman Lawrence Higgins was slain, the investigation continues and his friends from the racetrack continue to mourn. Higgins' friends and family held a memorial service for him Saturday morning at Tampa Bay Downs, a racetrack he frequented. Today, at the second day of live racing at the track's new season, Higgins' former horse trainer remembered Higgins fondly. ...more

December 17, 2008

TAMPA -- A proposed settlement between the city council and two companies will allow the city to maintain aesthetics in high-view areas, city officials say. But several council members, who are expected to vote on the proposal Thursday, say it would mean a proliferation of digital billboards — which look like massive television screens and display multiple advertisements — that will ruin the city's landscape and create public safety issues. ...more

December 16, 2008

City officials have proposed a settlement to end a more than decade-old dispute with two sign companies over the number of billboards they can put up across the city. ...more

November 21, 2008

TAMPA City officials have proposed a settlement to end a more than decade-old dispute with two sign companies over the number of billboards they can put up around the city. City attorney Chip Fletcher said the settlement will require CBS Outdoors and Clear Channel Outdoors to take down billboards from so-called "view corridors" — high-view areas where the city wants to maintain aesthetics. ...more

November 20, 2008

Kimberly Higgins, 35, one of the victim's four children, described the last time she saw her father at her Oct. 4 wedding in Washington, D.C. ...more

November 7, 2008

A judge says billboards and television ads supporting an amendment that would define marriage in the Florida Constitution can stay up for the election. ...more

November 4, 2008

The county mayor question won't be on the ballot next month, but Hillsborough County voters still will have a opportunity to define the scope and authority of that position. ...more

October 14, 2008

Cheyenne Pagan is only 8 months old, but soon she will be able to put a television commercial on her job resume. ...more

September 22, 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