TAMPA - Bay area home prices keep falling, but other cities are seeing steeper declines. Tampa's 19.6 percent price drop from a year ago was the seventh worst decline among 20 cities, according to the S&P/ Case-Shiller home price index, released today. The report tracked sales prices in March and compared the data to March 2007. It also showed a 3.4 percent drop from February, when Tampa had the sixth steepest price decline. However, the yearlong decrease was less severe at 17.5 percent. ...more

May 27, 2008

Charlie Sheen shot back Wednesday in the great Spermgate debate. ...more

May 23, 2008

Jordan Rubin says his latest book is meant to keep America from "imploding" under the weight of poor health. ...more

May 3, 2008

The Pinellas School District is confronted with having to cut some $43 million in spending for the 2008-09 school year. It would be tempting to attribute this totally to Florida's economic woes and the resulting cuts in state spending . As Superintendent Clayton Wilcox has noted, however, the district has a declining student population. ...more

May 3, 2008

These days the news is full of beautiful - and wrenching - images of polar bears, often swimming in unending open water, or standing on tiny ice floes. ...more

February 26, 2008

Heavily armed federal police swarmed an Amazon town and seized more than 500 truckloads of illegally cut hardwood that were confiscated but abandoned last week when rioting residents and loggers drove out environmental authorities. ...more

February 24, 2008

Pinellas County drew a record 5.3 million overnight visitors in 2007, but the weak U.S. economy appears to be taking a toll on leisure travel statewide, with upscale destinations remaining the exception. ...more

February 14, 2008

Rates on 30-year mortgages dipped slightly this week, the fifth decline in the past six weeks. ...more

February 8, 2008

More than a year ago, the chief executive of luxury-home builder Toll Bros. Inc. thought the housing slump could be touching close to bottom. ...more

February 7, 2008

What Happened Monday While U.S. markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the world's other major economies went into tailspins. Stocks lost value in 42 of the 43 nations with widely followed markets - the only exception was Sri Lanka. A German index fell the most since the Sept. 11 attacks. An index in India had the second-worst decline in its history. ...more

January 22, 2008