Tuesday's expressway authority meeting is promising to be livelier than usual. South Tampa businesses say they're not happy with plans by the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority to extend the Selmon Crosstown Expressway to Gandy Bridge. ...more

April 13, 2009

Manatee County Sheriff's detectives are searching for clues in the 26-year-old unsolved homicide of a woman. ...more

March 8, 2009

The University of Florida doesn't advertise it, but a few times a year people call about having their ashes spread on the school's football field. The school tries to honor those requests and knows alumni quietly scatter ashes on the campus's Lake Alice or behind fraternity houses. Now the school wants to build a Gator graveyard of sorts. ...more

March 5, 2009

Pull Our Troops From Afghanistan Editor's note: The following is an open letter to President Barack Obama: ...more

March 5, 2009

The University of Florida doesn't advertise it, but about once a month people call about having their ashes spread on the school's football field. ...more

March 4, 2009

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The University of Florida doesn't advertise it, but a few times a year people call about having their ashes spread on the school's football field. ...more

March 4, 2009

Cloudless skies, cool temps and hot chili drew more than 1,000 visitors to E.G. Simmons Park today, where a dozen amateur cooks talked trash and vied for a year of bragging rights. ...more

February 21, 2009

Throughout history, people have been oppressed to the point of desperation. Once the pain of enduring any longer becomes severe enough, a backlash begins to brew. ...more

February 12, 2009

There have been so many lows for the Bloomingdale High football program over the years that finding the deepest valley takes some doing. For linebacker C.J. Curran, that moment came at the end of the homecoming game last season against Brandon. ...more

November 21, 2008

That's the spirit! Miss Prudence Fipwhistle, a social director who died in 1899 at age 44, led about 150 people on a tour Sunday that raised the past from the grave. Miss Fipwhistle, aka historian Maureen Patrick in 19th century mourning attire, hosted the sixth annual Gothic Graveyard Walk through Oaklawn Cemetery, Tampa's Victorian-era necropolis. Following brick pathways under moss-bearded oaks, the visitors heard tales poignant and hilarious about local notables buried at the site, including 13 former mayors and veterans of seven wars. The $5 donations benefit the Tampa Historical Society. ...more

October 27, 2008