They didn't arrive here until around midnight Friday, but 12 hours later, New Port Richey residents Amy and Kevin Stanley were wide-awake and in game mode as they walked the concourse of the Rogers Centre around noon Saturday. ...more

January 2, 2010

USF conducted its final practice of the season Thursday in preparation for the International Bowl. The team's 16 seniors were honored prior to facing Miami at home last month in the final home game of the season. ...more

January 1, 2010

New Year's Eve is largely a social celebration of the year's end, and rightly so, this year, since it needs to end and we should celebrate hoping for a better year throughout 2010. So while we are glad this year is over we also celebrate even more when the next year begins with hugs and kisses for everyone around in our company. ...more

December 31, 2009

Thursday NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. or 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Brandon Crossroads Bowl, 609 Crater Lane, Tampa. The ninth annual pre-New Year's Eve Celebration event includes two hours of bowling, music, special cosmic lights and fog, free pizza, soda and shoe rental. Admission is $7.95 plus tax per person from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.; and $8.95 per person plus tax from 7 to 9 p.m. For students or members of St. Stephen Catholic School and/or parish, $2 will be donated back to the school for religious education. Call (813) 621-2363 or (813) 689-4900. ...more

December 30, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — The New Year's Eve crystal ball that drops in Times Square will have a new kind of sparkle when it descends at the stroke of midnight Thursday, and revelers will be able to toast 2010 without popping a cork. ...more

December 27, 2009

Get ready for ball drops, champagne toasts, skating parties and concerts as the Tampa Bay area celebrates the biggest party of the year. ...more

December 26, 2009

Just like the once-thriving citrus industry, the annual Tangerine Time New Year's Eve celebration could be a thing of the past as organizers announce they are canceling the event. ...more

December 13, 2009

St. Joseph's Hospitals Foundation hosted a Founders' Day Eve celebration on Sept. 30. ...more

October 28, 2009

On a recording of a 911 call released today, a seemingly distraught Robert Farley tells an emergency operator about a bloody scene where he has found his father's body. "He's lying on the floor. There is blood on the floor. There's blood on his back," Farley tells the operator on New Year's Day. ...more

January 8, 2009

Pinellas County Circuit Judge Thane B. Covert began New Year's Day listening to the sad, strange and sometimes moving stories of 88 men and women who are among the county's first offenders of 2009. ...more

January 2, 2009