Tyler Smith will not only go to Super Bowl XLIII, he will also get to meet players and write a story. The 10-year-old Claywell Elementary student was selected last Friday to write a story on the big event for the Weekly Reader. ...more

December 11, 2008

What a relief! The free public restrooms operated by the Charmin toilet paper company in Times Square during the holidays have been rolled out for another year. ...more

November 25, 2008

The Shops at Wiregrass flipped the switch Saturday night on its Symphony In Lights holiday display. ...more

November 22, 2008

Motorists waited for as much as half an hour Saturday at the Flying J Travel Plaza in order to get a cheap fill-up at the pump. ...more

October 12, 2008

The Pasco County Commission voted today to pay $90.5 million to buy the privately owned Aloha Utilities. ...more

October 7, 2008

There were maybe a dozen teenagers - and one adult - at the house on Lelani Boulevard to celebrate the 18th birthday of a Sarasota High School wrestler. ...more

August 1, 2008

Join TBO.com for live updates from Clearwater on illusionist Criss Angel's attempt to escape from the Spyglass Resort as it implodes live on TV. ...more

July 30, 2008

On Sunday afternoon, when Detroit-bound passengers stuck in the Dayton, Ohio, airport, learned their plane's repairs would take until 6 p.m., Margaret Hedgepeth rented a car and high-tailed it out of there. ...more

July 22, 2008

City hospital officials promised reforms at a Brooklyn psychiatric ward where surveillance footage captured a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers watched without helping for more than an hour. ...more

July 2, 2008

Dear Abby: My children and I were living with a maniac who threatened to kill me if I took the kids and ran. We reached out to his family members, hoping they would intervene and tell him they knew what he was doing to us. We wanted someone to stand up to him. ...more

June 1, 2008