Yes, it seems strange that the team that came from nowhere last season has left home to take up new digs in, well, the middle of nowhere (like St. Pete is the City of Light). In truth, Port Charlotte isn't in the middle of nowhere, but it's in the same school district. It's a friendly place, especially when the county fair is just across the road from the ball yard. ...more

February 14, 2009

The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels. ...more

November 30, 2008

and its infamous catwalks. ...more

October 13, 2008

Imagine your garden without birds and butterflies. What a quiet, still and lifeless place it would seem! If you, like most gardeners, cherish the sights and sounds that birds bring to your landscape, there are simple ways to make your landscape irresistible to flying wildlife. ...more

October 12, 2008

Actor/director Kevin Costner and his band 'Modern West' have recorded a song, "It's All Up to You," as a salute to the 2008 American League East Division Champion Tampa Bay Rays. ...more

October 1, 2008

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. (AP) -- She'd spent a lifetime less than an hour's drive away, but it had never crossed Joquetta Johnson's mind to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. What, she wondered when a friend suggested it, could a park in rural, lily-white West Virginia hold for a black teacher from Baltimore? ...more

July 7, 2008

Jack Ryan is putting a new twist on an old saying. ...more

May 10, 2008

Jack Ryan is putting a new twist on an old saying. "Build it, and they will come," he says of the mantra from the film "Field of Dreams." ...more

May 10, 2008

When you're Kevin Costner, you get a lot of people asking you to show up at events. But a recent request from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays immediately grabbed the actor's attention. ...more

November 8, 2007

Actor Kevin Costner's band, Modern West, plays at Thursday night's event in downtown St. Petersburg in which the Tampa Bay Devil Rays will unveil new uniforms minus the "devil." ...more

November 7, 2007