We're hearing and reading the usual hand-wringer stories about prospects for the holiday shopping season. Despite all the current worries, we're sure everything will be OK. ...more

November 24, 2007

Taliban militants tortured five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and then hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday. ...more

November 19, 2007

Some bye week for the Bucs, huh? Not only did they come back recharged and refocused, they also came back reaffirmed as the team to beat in the NFC South. ...more

November 12, 2007

City Commission members will be asked Tuesday whether they want to take emergency action to remove demolition as an alternative for dealing with a building in the city's historic district that has been deemed structurally unsafe. ...more

October 26, 2007

TAMPA - Three Tampa residents tried to make their Howl-O-Scream experience more eventful with nitrous oxide, but police intervened, Tampa police say. ...more

October 22, 2007

THE DIFFERENCE: Out-of-Door's failure to convert a 2-point conversion on its lone score was followed by Michael Miller's 85-yard run for a Lancers' touchdown on the ensuing kickoff.

October 6, 2007

SEBRING –– Old State Road 8 is too narrow, too bumpy and, in some places, sometimes under water. For Highlands County's plan to reconstruct this road over the next year, the state giveth $2.3 million. County officials are hoping the state, facing a billion-dollar revenue shortfall, won't taketh away. The fate of this project rides on the special 10-day session of the Florida Legislature starting tomorrow. Legislators and Gov. Charlie Christ need to chop $1.1 billion in spending to balance the budget. Highlands County Engineer Ramon Gavarrete said the reconstruction of Old State Road 8 isn't expected to get the "ax." But, he said, nothing will be certain until the Legislature finishes its budget cutting. ...more

October 2, 2007

Barry Bonds said the man who bought his 756th home run ball and announced plans to let the public decide its fate is an 'idiot.' ...more

September 20, 2007

Plant defensive lineman Jamar Williams said he was merely protecting his mother, but Oct. 11, the state attorney's office will decide if Williams' need to nurture warranted his actions. ...more

September 20, 2007

The New England Patriots' violation of National Football League videotaping rules makes the three-time Super Bowl champions and their coach, Bill Belichick, cheaters, plain and simple. ...more

September 18, 2007