Tampa officially submitted its bid Wednesday to host another Women's Final Four basketball tournament, and local organizers are optimistic the event will return. ...more

June 5, 2008

When he was just 13, Thomas LeGault's sister dragged him to an art class. That's when he discovered his passion for art and his career began. One year ago, he was approached by a man at an art show in Columbus, Ohio. The man turned out to be Mike Akers, whose Fudge Akers line of fudge and chocolates is sold at Cracker Barrel restaurants. ...more

February 12, 2008

After being on crutches with a broken foot five months ago, Brandon diver Chris Colwill is in good position to be selected for the U.S. World Cup Team that will compete Feb. 19-24 in Beijing. ...more

January 25, 2008

Tyler Heinrichs, 12, is getting used to winning. The northwest Hillsborough County youngster recently beat out hundreds of riders in his class at a national BMX racing competition in Columbus, Ohio. ...more

January 18, 2008

During practice runs such as these, music blares through the loudspeakers as dozens of riders of varying ages and sizes climb to the starting gate. ...more

January 17, 2008

TAMPA – Through the efforts of Tampa's Big Cat Rescue workers and the donations of lots of animal lovers, two abandoned lions and two abandoned tigers have a new home. Big Cat Rescue teamed up with the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Wild Animal Orphanage to rescue the animals from an unsanctioned shelter in Ohio. ...more

October 22, 2007

TAMPA - Southwest Airlines on Friday was trying to contact a Largo passenger to apologize after an employee forced him to change out of a sexually suggestive T-shirt or risk getting thrown off the plane. The incident Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, came after Southwest Airlines created a public uproar by telling a woman on a flight in July that her outfit was too revealing for her to fly. Joe Winiecki, 39, a radiographer at Bayfront Medical Center, said he was sitting in the last row of a Columbus-to-Tampa flight when an employee told him he had to change his T-shirt, turn it inside out or get off the plane. ...more

October 5, 2007