Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about "being a part of something." ...more

November 4, 2009

More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday. ...more

March 18, 2009

Good news and Palm Harbor University just seem to go hand in hand these days. Only one week removed from the boys soccer team wrapping up its third state title - and two weeks from the girls winning a fourth - goalkeeper Max Gallin has announced his intentions to play college ball at Princeton University. ...more

February 28, 2009

Center Place Fine Arts and Civic Association at 619 Vonderburg Drive, Brandon, brings a light and bright breath of spring to the local art scene with a mother-and-daughter show that's all about color, texture and composition. ...more

February 18, 2009

The newly appointed pastor of the century-old First United Methodist Church of Tarpon Springs was pleased to learn he had been chosen to lead a congregation famed in area religious circles for its outreach ministry. ...more

February 14, 2009

In a matchup of two of the top softball teams in Hillsborough County, Newsome senior third baseman Meaghan Schultz hit two home runs to lead the Wolves over Durant, 6-2, in the season opener on Tuesday. ...more

February 10, 2009

Republican Eddie Adams Jr. was briefly sidelined with a ruptured appendix two years ago when he faced Democrat Kathy Castor for the U.S. House District 11 seat being vacated by Jim Davis. ...more

October 19, 2008

The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

He was a playboy bachelor, the first Republican governor of Florida since Reconstruction and a promising candidate for the vice presidency. His name was Claude Kirk Jr. ...more

August 3, 2008

Some clergy think churches should divorce themselves from the wedding business. ...more

July 5, 2008