City commissioners are hoping the federal stimulus package might help stem turnover at the city's police department. ...more

May 27, 2009

No blemishes were found in the daily operations and bookkeeping of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, according to an audit by an independent accounting firm. ...more

January 7, 2009

Last week I introduced my readers to what I referred to as "ring rage" that I defined as "how one feels when that little tab on the top of a can separates from the top before the top separates from the can and it takes a pair of pliers to get the top off and juice is spilled all over you in the process." Rage is violent and uncontrollable anger. It goes beyond "What's bothering you?" or pet peeves, which usually invoke such responses as the rolling of one's eyes or audible tsking. But for the sake of this article we'll consider more drastic reactions to certain stimuli as "rages," which hopefully will not progress farther than being imaginary reactions. ...more

January 12, 2008

When the New York Rangers dealt Jason Ward to the Los Angeles Kings last season, Ward appeared to be on the path of a hockey nomad, playing for his third NHL organization in three years. ...more

October 29, 2007