Churchill Downs Inc. and Calder Race Course broke ground Wednesday on a 104,000-square-foot slots and gaming facility. It will be the county's first casino other than cruise ships. ...more

June 3, 2009

Regina Henschel did not fully grasp her fiance's love for football until the couple began making wedding plans for Oct. 16, 1976. ...more

January 26, 2009

Boston mobsters paid then-FBI agent John Connolly roughly $235,000 over the years for protection and information that included fingering gang turncoats, a jailed gangster testified Monday at the agent's murder trial. ...more

September 23, 2008

John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of Callahan's own Cadillac at Miami's airport. ...more

September 8, 2008

The games go on at Seminole casinos as lawyers, lawmakers and tribal officials deliberate the arcane world of gaming law and Indian sovereignty in the wake of a court ruling that voided an agreement between the state and the tribe. ...more

July 21, 2008

Thirty-two years ago this summer, the Bucs were preparing for their first season, the Lightning and Rays were weather terms and not local sports teams, the University of Florida, Florida State and Miami had zilch national football championships, Tampa Jai-Alai was flourishing at the fronton on South Dale Mabry and a junior at UF started covering the Gators as a sports correspondent for The Tampa Tribune. Thirty-two years later, it's time to say goodbye. ...more

June 20, 2008

Chris LaRosa caught the jai alai bug as a child but hung up his cesta 10 years ago after Tampa's fronton closed. ...more

May 28, 2008