Tampa Port Authority commissioners on Thursday postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 20, 2009

Tampa Port Authority commissioners today postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 19, 2009

Sure, there's plenty of pressure on Barack Obama. But imagine being his wife. ...more

December 2, 2008

Arnold Vallombroso told his 82-year-old neighbor in Shalimar Trailer Court he could make her some serious cash, according to authorities. All he needed was her to help a bit. ...more

August 6, 2008

Arnold Vallombroso told his 82-year-old neighbor in Shalimar Trailer Court he could make her some serious cash, according to authorities. All he needed was her to help a bit. Late last year, he told the woman he had a $900 million inheritance coming from Nigeria, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states. Because Vallombroso was out of work, he reportedly told her, he needed cash to pay customs so he could get the money. She bit but in the end wound up being out thousands of dollars. On Monday, Pasco deputies caught up with Vallombroso after receiving a tip that he was at his mother's home at 9033 Shawn Ave. He was arrested on a charge of scheme to defraud. He was being held Tuesday in the Land O' Lakes Jail with bail set at $5,000. ...more

August 5, 2008

With his moves last week involving Iraq, Iran and North Korea, President Bush accelerated a shift toward centrist foreign policies, a change that has cheered Democrats, angered some Republicans and roiled the presidential campaign. ...more

July 20, 2008

France has had contacts with the leaders of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas "for several months," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday. ...more

May 20, 2008

Right around noon today, if all goes as planned, a spacecraft called Messenger will swoop past Mercury and begin two days of unprecedented picture-taking and data-collecting. ...more

January 14, 2008

Washoe, a female chimpanzee thought to be the first nonhuman to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. ...more

November 1, 2007