Castor targets security costs U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, has added a provision to a pending bill that will help workers and businesses at the Port of Tampa and other Florida ports eliminate duplicative and costly background checks. ...more

October 24, 2009

Gladys Jeffcoat, a professional photographer for 45 years, will be presented the Heritage Award at next week's Plant City Photo Archives annual gala. ...more

March 18, 2009

Gladys Jeffcoat, a professional photographer for 45 years, will be presented the Heritage Award at a March 26 Plant City Photo Archives annual gala. ...more

March 13, 2009

The parent company of Outback Steakhouse and two other area companies landed on an unenviable list of companies most at-risk of defaulting on their debt. ...more

March 13, 2009

Battered by layoffs, debts and dread of worse to come, shoppers clutched ever tighter to their wallets in the final three months of 2008 and thrust the economy into its worst downhill slide in a quarter-century. Americans cut spending on everything from cars to computers, and it's only getting worse so far in the new year. ...more

January 31, 2009

Marsha Passmore, director of outreach for Hopewell Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens, invites the community to the second annual Hopewell Lantern Ghost Walk on Oct. 31. The event will begin at 6 p.m. with music at McCall Park, Collins and Drane streets downtown. ...more

October 8, 2008

It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away. ...more

September 22, 2008

Tampa Bay lost another corporate headquarters today when shareholders of St. Petersburg- and London-based Danka Business Systems PLC voted to approve a $240 million sale of the office equipment and services company to Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA of Ramsey, N.J. ...more

June 27, 2008

Companies such as banks and credit-card vendors have long included paper ads and offers with their statements or bills. Customers usually have trashed the inserts. ...more

October 22, 2007