Winning a blue ribbon for creating the top key lime pie at the recent American Pie Council National Championships is just the icing on the cake for Lola Giunta. Last month she and her mother, Cindy Giunta, moved their 2-year-old business, which turns out pies, cookies, cakes and other pastry items from an obscure warehouse location along U.S. 19 in Tarpon Springs. Key Lime Yummies is now in downtown Palm Harbor, at the newly designed kitchen inside the Witches Brew, on Florida Avenue. ...more

December 19, 2009

The 13th annual Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta will be part of a three-race "Le Mans Intercontinental Cup" that will link the globe's three Le Mans-style series in 2010, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest said today. Entrants in LMP1 will be eligible for the Intercontinental Cup with the second leg set for the annual 1,000-mile classic at Road Atlanta on October 2. ...more

December 10, 2009

PLANT CITY Here is a list of the winners at the Florida Strawberry Festival Youth Poultry Show. ...more

March 17, 2009

Andy Dilley considered shop a gimme class in high school. He made the obligatory cutting board, a letter opener and got A's. ...more

February 22, 2009

A key lime cake baked by Helen Shevel of Avon Park took the top honors in the adult division of the Highlands County Fair Cooking Contest. ...more

January 29, 2009

With names like Hoppy the rabbit and Snicker Doodle, Booster the Rooster, every kid and his or her pet was a winner Tuesday night in the Pee Wee livestock show. ...more

January 29, 2009

Pool checkers is a winner for Arthur "Moochie" McCarr. The 65-year-old East Tampa resident is national master's champion after besting a 10-player field in Chicago at the recent 42nd annual American Pool Checkers Association tournament. ...more

August 16, 2008

Pool checkers is a winner for Arthur "Moochie" McCarr. The 65-year-old is national master's champion after besting a 10-player field in Chicago at the 42nd annual American Pool Checkers Association tournament in July. ...more

August 13, 2008

Billionaires Ross Perot and Boone Pickens have far more in common than their bank accounts. ...more

July 17, 2008

Every year, the Florida Strawberry Festival awards blue ribbons by the hundreds in the many competitions that are part of the annual celebration. ...more

May 31, 2008