Construction worker Anthony Carey usually gets $50 in scratch-off lottery tickets once a week at the convenience store where he gasses up, but he says that probably will change when Florida reintroduces vending machines this year in supermarkets. ...more

June 6, 2009

A construction worker was struck in the head by a block-and-tackle hoist this afternoon and was transported to a local hospital as a trauma alert patient, officials said. ...more

May 4, 2009

Charleston is a walker's paradise, with narrow streets winding past 250-year-old mansions, sassy Southern restaurants and antique shops. At the Market, stroll through an open-air collection of small shops and flea market-style booths hawking everything from she-crab soup mixes to photographs of the Holy City's famed decorative iron gates designed by renowned African-American blacksmith Philip Simmons. ...more

March 15, 2009

Tickets for Michael Jackson's 50 London concerts sold out within hours of becoming available, organizers said today. ...more

March 13, 2009

Investigators have determined that a house that exploded in Dunedin on Feb. 11 did so because of propane gas, but they are still at a loss as to how the gas was ignited, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said this morning. ...more

February 23, 2009

appropriately enough - dis/ORDER. ...more

February 18, 2009

A fiery explosion leveled a house Wednesday morning, sending one man to a hospital and causing minor damage to a neighboring home. Residents up to a mile away said they heard the explosion. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Dunedin road has reopened after a house explosion that injured a man today, fire officials said. ...more

February 11, 2009

The National Football League's multibillion-dollar celebration of its own opulence has gained a pervasive hold on American life since it came into existence 43 years ago. ...more

February 1, 2009

Dozens of newspaper street vendors made some headlines of their own today by protesting possible changes in Pasco County rules. ...more

January 27, 2009