St. Petersburg authorities began exhuming this morning the body of a woman buried in 1948 to see if it matches a skull found in a former gravedigger's home. ...more

October 29, 2009

There have been few chances to second-guess Rays manager Joe Maddon this season, because usually the guess has hardly been out of our mouths when Maddon's hunches have worked, often perfectly, sometimes eerily, in this wondrous season. ...more

October 16, 2008

PLANT CITY About 500 mourners gathered Thursday at a Plant City church to say goodbye and honor the memory of a teenager whose life ended with an accidental shooting at a party. ...more

October 10, 2008

A Pasco County sheriff's deputy who served as a school resource officer was fired late Wednesday, accused of making an inappropriate comment to a 13-year-old girl earlier that day. ...more

October 10, 2008

The body of a 37-year-old man was found in a Tampa house this morning and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has ruled the case a homicide. ...more

October 9, 2008

Most clocks just tell time, simply and reliably. Not the $1.8 million "time eater" formally unveiled Friday at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. ...more

September 20, 2008

It's something Baker took away from his early coaching days at Georgia Tech, where a spiked baseball - signifying a nail in an opponent's coffin - hung in the dugout. ...more

September 9, 2008

Want to live to 100? These women share their secrets to longetivy - and happiness. ...more

September 5, 2008

This is supposed to be the series in which the Rays pound the nails into the Yankees' coffin – at least as far as the American League East title goes. ...more

September 3, 2008

The best way to sanely experience the tunnel of an MRI machine is to keep your eyes closed. I did that for the longest time before curiosity got the best of me. I opened them for an instant, freaked out and shut them again quickly. The white wall of the machine seemed 2 inches from my face, even though it wasn't really that close. ...more

June 21, 2008