With Tampa Bay spending the next week in Canada, trade rumors are sure to run rampant as the March 4 trade deadline approaches. ...more

February 23, 2009

When John McCain decided to cast Barack Obama as a feckless upstart, an empty suit, he reached for the dirtiest word he could use: "celebrity." What McCain and his image-makers don't bother to tell us is that all serious presidential candidates are celebrities. ...more

September 11, 2008

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Invigorated by back-to-back political conventions, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama grappled for the mantle of change Friday as the fall race for the presidency took off in states teeming with the independent voters they needed to win. ...more

September 5, 2008

The busy offseason for the Tampa Bay Lightning continued Monday as the team signed goaltender Mike Smith to a two-year contract extension. ...more

July 14, 2008

It has been a rough 10 days for Michelle Obama. Internet rumors claimed there was a videotape of her criticizing "whitey" from a church pulpit. A Fox News analyst suggested her affectionate on-stage knuckle bump with her husband, on the night he locked up the Democratic presidential nomination, might have been a "terrorist's fist jab." Fox also labeled her a "baby mama," a term some use for unwed mothers. ...more

June 14, 2008

A Tampa woman has made it past the first round of 'The Bachelor.' Erin Gardner, 25, was one of 15 single women who got a rose Monday night from Brad Womack, the 'sexiest bachelor ever' on the ABC reality series. ...more

September 25, 2007