"Dark Knight" indeed. Christian Bale can be heard in newly surfaced audio delivering a long, profanity-laced verbal thrashing to a cinematographer and anyone who tried to calm him down on the set of the upcoming "Terminator Salvation." ...more

February 3, 2009

With power, nothing else matters. Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker won their second straight pairs title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday, overcoming two big errors with their considerable speed and strength. They finished with a score of 178.76, edging newcomers Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett - who train in Ellenton - by about 2 1/2 points. ...more

January 25, 2009

A 7-year-old bicyclist was killed this afternoon when he was hit by a pickup while riding on a bike trail that crosses U.S. Highway 301 north of Stacy Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

December 26, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The roar of the motorcycle engines signaled National Guard Sgt. Jose Pequeno's arrival Friday. ...more

December 20, 2008

The last thing Lexi Smart recalls is going out with friends and trying to hail a taxi. "'Remember Me" by Sophie Kinsella finds Lexi waking up in a hospital in a new year and she cannot remember anything at all about the past three years. Her amnesia is so severe she barely recognizes her mother and sister and is stunned to find out that she had an executive job and is married. She views a DVD of the wedding but it rouses no memories. Her husband is handsome and rich and agrees to let Lexi come home and have the master bedroom to herself until they become reacquainted. Lexi begins to find her way cautiously in her new life and thinks she is doing well until a handsome architect named Jon tells her they have been secret lovers and that she was about to leave her husband for him before her accident. Lexi is attracted to him but has no memory of him but she does eventually decide that she and Eric are not compatible. She leaves her job and decides to start her own company, to revive battered old friendships and maybe try her luck with Jon. ...more

December 17, 2008

Police arrested William Balfour, the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson, on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation. ...more

December 1, 2008

The 60-mile 3-Day will take place Halloween weekend in Tampa/St. Petersburg; Proceeds go toward the Susan B. Komen Foundation ...more

October 20, 2008

BRADENTON - It used to be that Jessica Case and Keith McGlade were friends. They went to church together, hung out in the same circles, celebrated the births of each other's children. ...more

September 4, 2008

TAMPA James Kenneth McElroy, who deputies say stabbed his father to death and seriously wounded his mother and sister, will be held in jail without bail, a judge said today. ...more

July 25, 2008

Charles Smith says that as soon as he saw the news of the stabbing on his computer Wednesday afternoon, he knew his "creepy" former co-worker would show up at his door. ...more

July 25, 2008