American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it's a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened and how to make sure it never happens again. ...more

November 12, 2009

A survey of 2,000 women found nearly 25 percent would rather win "America's Next Top Model" than the Nobel Peace Prize. ...more

March 25, 2009

Election chiefs in Florida walk a fine line between politics and the oath of office. ...more

February 21, 2009

J.P. Howell's personality is difficult to describe. Perhaps the friendliest and most outgoing Ray, he's laid-back California cool and fast-twitch high-strung all at the same time. The explanation behind that dichotomy may lie in what he drinks and listens to before each game. That and other mysteries about the Rays' versatile lefty reliever were revealed in a discussion with The Tampa Tribune's Marc Lancaster. ...more

October 9, 2008

Judges are urged to warn habitual traffic offenders that guilty or no contest pleas could lead to the loss of their licenses - even though such warnings aren't yet required, a divided Florida Supreme Court said Thursday. ...more

September 19, 2008

Unemployment is at a five-year high. Financial firms that withstood the Great Depression are failing. Congress and a lame-duck president are gridlocked. So when John McCain declared that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," it drew ridicule from Democrat Barack Obama. ...more

September 17, 2008

With just eight days left to break a three-way deadlock in the Democratic race in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York began delivering a closing argument Wednesday that centered around the experience she and her husband gained in the Oval Office. ...more

December 27, 2007

Tale Of 2 Counties Not long after the problems at the Sarasota YMCA, the privatized "lead agency" for five of the six counties in the Florida Department of Children & Families' Suncoast Region, started getting long-overdue attention - the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform first pointed out this agency was having problems in 2002 - there's been a mystery: ...more

November 23, 2007