The East-West Shrine Game, an all-star college football showcase for NFL hopefuls that two weeks ago was close to finalizing a deal with Tampa, will announce Wednesday morning a move to Orlando beginning in 2010. ...more

March 31, 2009

Martha Murray says officials of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Suncoast officials were barking up the wrong tree in her surprise dismissal as executive director. SPCA board members say they wish Murray well, but call interim Executive Director Gail Armstrong a "visionary leader" in a press release. ...more

March 18, 2009

The East-West Shrine Game, a college-football all-star bowl that began in 1925, is coming to Tampa's Raymond James Stadium in 2010. ...more

March 17, 2009

The nation's credit crunch has frozen Florida's ability to borrow money, but that isn't yet causing problems for the state, a top state money manager said Tuesday. ...more

September 30, 2008

The Tampa Museum of Art will have a new leader when it opens in a year. ...more

September 20, 2008

The Tampa Museum of Art has announced that Todd Smith will be the museum's executive director when it reopens in 2009. ...more

September 19, 2008

It seems there's sometimes an additional event when George Sorensen celebrates a birthday. His family moved from Hudson, N.Y., to Jacksonville when he turned 8. Three years ago, he moved from Jacksonville to Tampa on his 37th birthday. ...more

August 6, 2008

SEBRING – The search for an executive director for Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative will contine Monday, June 2 when the selection committee meets in Sebring. Six candidates for the position are scheduled to be interviewed, according to Roger Hood, who is a member of the committee. The FHREDI board of directors' regular meeting will be held Monday, June 16 at the Agri-Civic Center in Sebring. A recommendation will likely be made from the committee to the board at that time. Following the retirement of Lynn Topel earlier this year, the board advertised the position. The committee chose three candidates to be interviewed and offered the position to the top two, but both declined. Salary might have been an issue with those two individuals, according to Hood, who is also a member of the board. ...more

May 31, 2008

SEBRING — Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative Inc., Hardee County Economic Development Commission and Chamber of Commerce and Highlands County Economic Development Commission are hosting an inbound-trade mission from Honduras on May 22 at South Florida Community College in Wauchula from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. ...more

May 17, 2008

Bill Starkey was characteristically humble after being named the Civitan Citizen of the Year at the Florida State Fair's Governor's Day Luncheon Monday. ...more

February 12, 2008