Twice-weekly trips to the library are a treat for Luu Crosby's 2-year-old granddaughter. ...more

October 25, 2009

Egmont Key and 18 other parks the state threatened to close in a cost-cutting move will remain open, a member of Gov. Charlie Crist's policy team said Thursday. ...more

March 6, 2009

Stephen J. Cannell looks like he could play one of the characters from his Shane Scully crime novels. ...more

February 22, 2009

Preliminary estimates of how much it would cost to repair the partially closed Friendship Trail bridge range from $11 million to fix both ends of the structure to $82 million to knock down the existing bridge and build a new one. ...more

December 18, 2008

TAMPA -- Hoping to find ways of saving the bridge and spread word of their cause, Tampa Bay's Friends of the Friendship Trail & Bridge will meet Thursday. "We will review the past, present and future of the bridge," said community activist Neil Cosentino. "Little people can do big things." ...more

December 17, 2008

Deanne Roberts, founder of Tampa-based Roberts Communications and a well-known leader in civic activities, has renamed the firm ChappellRoberts and has promoted business partner Colleen Chappell to president. ...more

November 12, 2008

Kevin Beckner campaigned on a platform of ending divisive politics on the Hillsborough County Commission and seeking practical solutions for problems such as sprawl, traffic congestion and environmental degradation. ...more

November 8, 2008

2:51 p.m.: Democrat Sam Mangione, 50, often votes for Democrats. ...more

November 4, 2008

7:48 a.m.: U.S. Army Sgt. Crosby Lee, 24, had two issues at the booth today at the Jan Platt Regional Library in South Tampa. He didn't bring anything with a signature on it to vote, so he had to vote provisionally, he says. And when they looked him up in the voter records, his address came back incorrectly. ...more

November 4, 2008

7:35 a.m.: Early voting during the lunch hour Friday at the Jan Platt Regional Library in South Tampa took about an hour. But this morning, the line is considerably shorter, and people are popping out of the voting booths in about a half-hour. ...more

November 4, 2008