City Commissioner Steve Van Gorden announced Tuesday night he will resign his seat after the Nov. 10 commission meeting. ...more

October 28, 2009

Senate Democrats voiced deep disagreements Tuesday about the idea of a government-run health insurance plan, suggesting that the decision by Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to include a public plan in major health care legislation had failed to unite his caucus. ...more

October 28, 2009

The White House says President Barack Obama doesn't believe he's being criticized because of his race. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Obama — the nation's first black president — doesn't think that criticism of his policies is "based on the color of his skin." ...more

September 16, 2009

Gingerlee Prettymitchell's "Words of Wisdom" published March 17 in the letters to the editor are really "Words of Folly." We can't even call them words of knowledge for she is talking about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and claims Jefferson's words support them. ...more

March 20, 2009

A federal judge on Friday approved the city's $150,000 settlement to the family of a man killed during a 2005 traffic stop. ...more

February 14, 2009

A federal judge this afternoon approved the city's $150,000 settlement to the family of a man killed during a 2005 traffic stop. ...more

February 13, 2009

The Alaska Senate on Friday found Gov. Sarah Palin's husband and nine state employees, including some of her top aides, in contempt for ignoring subpoenas to testify in the Legislature's Troopergate investigation. ...more

February 6, 2009

Hernando County Commissioner Rose Rocco said she met privately with her county administrator Thursday and smoothed over any disagreements. ...more

February 6, 2009

Their second-place finish on "The Amazing Race 13" Sunday night might not be the last TV viewers have seen of Tampa couple Ken and Tina Greene. ...more

December 9, 2008

Their second-place finish on "The Amazing Race 13" Sunday night might not be the last that TV viewers have seen of Tampa couple Ken and Tina Greene. "We want to do a travel adventure series that would show people how to stay fit and have exciting, challenging vacations," Tina Greene said in a telephone interview today. ...more

December 8, 2008