The Zephyrhills firefighters' union is on the verge of declaring an impasse in its contract negotiations after failing to reach an agreement despite four months of talks. ...more

November 7, 2009

A federal magistrate today ordered the release of a Lakeland man who told authorities he sold steroids to professional athletes. ...more

June 4, 2009

Drug-Testing Scheme Regarding "Jobless Benefits Drug Test Proposed," Metro, March 17: ...more

March 19, 2009

Brandon native Suzy Davis has watched the community grow up around her for more than 40 years. ...more

December 31, 2008

On Sept. 7, these comments were made by Frank Parker: "You shall know a tree by its fruit." The problem is no fruit is hitting the ground, which is to say, us, the working class people. ...more

October 16, 2008

TAMPA - Moments after finishing a mere hundredth of a second from winning her first Olympic medal, Tampa's Damu Cherry sat inside Beijing's National Stadium with U.S. teammate Dawn Harper. ...more

August 20, 2008

After becoming only the third state nationally to jump into the fight against youth steroid abuse, the Florida High School Athletic Association will be discontinuing its testing policy after just one year of implementation. ...more

June 7, 2008

Pedro Martinez said he knows his place in the Steroids Era. "I dominated that era and I did it clean," he said. "I can stand by my numbers." ...more

February 15, 2008

Leo McNellis is not a sports demagogue; he just plays one on the Internet. By day, he's a chemistry teacher at Washington High in South Bend, Ind., and an avowed Cubs fan. Yet, when McNellis, 41, became fed up with what he perceived was a lack of voice being given to baseball fans in the conversation about the abuse of performance enhancing drugs, he decided to act by founding the Web site, fanstrike.net. ...more

February 13, 2008

Bud Selig and Donald Fehr return to Capitol Hill today, three years after a theatrical hearing where the baseball commissioner and players' union head were chastised for what lawmakers called a lax steroids policy. ...more

January 15, 2008