Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble." ...more

October 30, 2009

With the economy in turmoil and tax collections plummeting, Gov. Charlie Crist announced Wednesday that the state has dramatically downsized its plan to buy and restore the Everglades. ...more

April 2, 2009

If an officer asks if you need help on Super Bowl Sunday, he might be doing more than simply being gracious. ...more

January 26, 2009

For the first time, the Transportation Security Administration's "Behavior Detection Officers" are enhancing security at the championship event by watching people for combinations of suspicious behavior. ...more

January 23, 2009

"Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies," by Donald Spoto (Harmony Books, $26) ...more

November 9, 2008

Dinosaur experts bust up prehistoric party theory ...more

November 8, 2008

The Tarpon Springs Planning and Zoning Board will hear Wal-Mart's request to amend the site plan for the retailer's proposed 203,077-square-foot Supercenter on U.S. 19 near Beckett Way. ...more

September 22, 2008

Edward Covington, charged with the grisly Mother's Day murder of Lisa Freiberg and her two children, will have to provide investigators with footprints, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA – Edward Covington, charged with the grisly Mother's Day murder of Lisa Freiberg and her two children, will have to provide investigators with footprints, a Hillsborough County Circuit Court judge ruled today. While investigating the slayings, crime-scene technicians found a bloody footprint near Freiberg's body on the floor in the master bedroom of her trailer. ...more

May 27, 2008

The University of Tampa soon will break ground on a nondenominational chapel backed by one of the school's most generous benefactors. ...more

May 23, 2008