The number of jobless residents in the Tampa Bay area has topped 10 percent while the state unemployment rate hit 9.4 percent, according figures released today. ...more

March 27, 2009

Worried about their children's health, about two dozen parents appeared before the school board Tuesday demanding a stop to the practice of placing cell phone towers at schools, regardless of the income it provides. ...more

February 11, 2009

Worried over their children's health, about two dozen parents appeared before the school board today demanding a stop to the practice of placing cell phone towers at schools, regardless of the income it provides. ...more

February 10, 2009

The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the Tampa Bay area has risen 9 cents in two weeks, despite low oil prices. ...more

February 10, 2009

The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the Tampa Bay area has risen 9 cents in two weeks, despite low oil prices. ...more

February 9, 2009

Happy hour is getting happier, and that's making restaurants sadder. As the recession drags on, drinkers such as Luis Romero of Anaheim, Calif., are gravitating to happy hour - that late-afternoon period when bars and restaurants sell discounted drinks and food to attract customers during what otherwise would be a slow time. ...more

January 17, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) -- Google Inc. is closing three engineering offices and cutting 100 recruiters from its work force as the recession dampens hiring at the Internet search company. "Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring," Laszlo Bock, a Google vice president, wrote in a blog posting late Wednesday announcing the layoffs. ...more

January 15, 2009

If the playoffs are here, Bruce Arians knows what people in Pittsburgh are thinking. ...more

January 1, 2009

Most of what legislators heard Tuesday was a chorus of desperate pleas from community groups to keep their state funding intact. ...more

December 31, 2008

Although many reef anglers say they are catching more small gag grouper than at any time in the past 20 years, state and federal fishery managers have confirmed a plan to reduce the bag limit on the popular reef species to one per person per day as part of an aggregate bag of five groupers of all species. Formerly, Gulf anglers could take up to five gags daily. ...more

December 21, 2008