For the second time this summer, Tampa is king of the iPhone app world. The Inner Four software company again holds the No. 1 most downloaded spot on the Apple iPhone charts, this time with another gimmick. ...more

September 10, 2009

The Illinois Senate has convened a historic impeachment trial that will determine whether Gov. Rod Blagojevich is removed from office. ...more

January 26, 2009

ringling bros. circus parades the elephants through downtown ...more

January 5, 2009

Local supermarkets and I seem to lock horns at about this time every year. ...more

November 19, 2008

Congress sent President Bush an $8 billion rescue package for the federal highway trust fund Thursday. The infusion comes as the trust fund, which relies on declining revenue from the federal gas tax, verges on going broke, threatening road and bridge projects in every state. ...more

September 12, 2008

While many couples across the country went out of their way to schedule their weddings for Aug. 8 as a way of securing good luck, a South Shore couple took the theme in a slightly different direction. Carmine and Joanna Caporaso planned for their second son, Ryan, to be born on Aug. 8 at Brandon Regional Hospital. However, the Caporasos ended up taking the 8-8-08 gimmick to the extreme — the infant was born precisely at 8:08 a.m. "We had selected that date a while ago and my surgery was scheduled for 7:30 a.m.," Joanna said. "Once we were in there, and we saw that it was getting to be close to 8:08 a.m., I told them, 'If we can make it happen, let's try to make it happen.'" ...more

August 15, 2008

He won the Nationwide Series race at Mexico City, the Sprint Cup race at Sonoma and the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen. Kyle Busch, obviously, is a pretty good road racer. ...more

August 13, 2008

She has tried nightclubs and online dating sites, but now a 42-year-old single mother is looking for love where everyone else's heart is breaking - the real estate market. ...more

July 9, 2008

The Mullet. Gimmick. Hollywood slickster. ...more

June 25, 2008

TAMPA - The mullet. Gimmick. Hollywood slickster. As it became obvious Barry Melrose would be the Lightning's new coach, many fans were not pleased with the decision to hire someone who has not been behind the bench in 13 years. We know this because those people have access to e-mail, message boards and telephones. Some of them have interesting vocabularies. ...more

June 24, 2008