Tampa Bay & Co., which promotes the visitors and convention business for Hillsborough County, hired a former visitors bureau and hotel executive in Arkansas and Missouri to fill the position of national sales manager for religious and multicultural markets. Sherri Brown, who worked for the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau and was sales executive for the Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotel, the Adam's Mark Hotel and the Roberts Mayfair Wyndham Hotel in St. Louis, joins the 50-plus person Tampa Bay & Co. staff. ...more

October 14, 2008

To save some money on a summer vacation to Puerto Rico, Kim Gismervik decided to rent a house for her family instead of paying for multiple hotel rooms. After scouring the Web for the perfect place, she landed at Cyberrentals.com, where she found a three-bedroom villa on the north coast of the island with a grill, shared pool and backyard for $1,400 for the week. ...more

October 5, 2008

She could be the nursing assistant who helped you last week at your doctor's office. ...more

July 27, 2008

The official announcement of this year's All-Star rosters will come at 2 p.m. today, but Dioner Navarro insisted Saturday he'll have other things on his mind at the time. ...more

July 6, 2008

Review: Sleeptracker Pro alarm clock watch, $149 or $179 at www.sleeptracker.com ...more

June 14, 2008

When the Tampa Downtown Partnership held its second annual review of its 2005 Vision and Action Plan last year, the audience presented a mixed bag of ideas. ...more

May 24, 2008

SEBRING — Of the 32 weekends left in this year, 25 already have softball tournaments scheduled at the Highlands County Sports Complex. And Rocky Ellingsworth, manager of complex, says there's a good chance that all or most of those seven open weekends will be filled with tournaments. ...more

May 9, 2008

Little Harbor's down-sized plans to convert condos and homes into hotel rooms and daily rentals continued to draw heavy fire from nearby residents at a second zoning hearing Tuesday night. ...more

May 3, 2008

A public hearing and decision on changes to the Little Harbor development at Bahia Beach to allow condominiums to be used as hotel will not be held Feb. 26 as originally scheduled. ...more

February 25, 2008

The developers of Pasco Town Center, the enormous retail-hotel-office complex proposed for the junction of State Road 52 and Interstate 75, won a two-month extension on a rezoning request Wednesday. ...more

February 14, 2008