Next to Christmas and Easter, perhaps the most revered of all days for Mexican Catholics is Dec. 12, when they celebrate their patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe. ...more

December 23, 2009

Visitors to downtown Tampa on Saturday morning may feel the need to double-check the date when they hear the mariachi band on the steps of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. ...more

December 11, 2009

Lawrence Tynes sent home the largest crowd in NFL regular-season history muttering about what might've been. ...more

September 21, 2009

Texas health officials on Tuesday announced the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu, and said she was a 33-year-old schoolteacher who had recently given birth to a healthy baby. ...more

May 6, 2009

The Obama administration plans to spend more than $400 million to upgrade ports of entry and surveillance technologies to help thwart drugs and arms smuggling along the U.S-Mexico border. ...more

April 1, 2009

Two decades ago, a group of car thieves hit on a way to steal cars and get away with it. It was a scheme that involved bogus vehicle identification numbers and multistate - even multinational - coordination. The result: millions in profit. ...more

March 25, 2009

Arrest warrants issued for 17 members of an international car-cloning ring - an organization that ran a cell in Tampa - were issued by the FBI today, laying open what had been a new and improved style of thievery that until recently went almost undetectable. ...more

March 24, 2009

A 40-year-old Austin, Texas minister will become the senior pastor of the city's largest church. ...more

March 16, 2009

There are a billion or so people in China who don't care about the World Baseball Classic — and China is in the World Baseball Classic. At least it was until it got rolled by Japan and Korea, though China did beat Taiwan. There are billions more who don't care about the WBC, either, especially with the stringent new airport security edict: Only Cuban baseball players weighing 3.5 ounces or less are allowed in carry-on baggage. ...more

March 9, 2009

International touring group Up with People arrived Monday for its first visit to Dade City. ...more

March 5, 2009