TAMPA - University of South Florida Provost Renu Khator has been named the leader of the University of Houston system. Houston's Board of Regents met this morning to unanimously declare Khator the president of the university and chancellor of its system, which includes three other universities and two teaching centers, said Eric Gerber, the system's spokesman. ...more

October 15, 2007

If this indeed is the final meeting in Tampa between the schools separated by less than 100 miles, it will be witnessed by an expected sellout crowd and a national television audience. ...more

October 8, 2007

TAMPA - Southwest Airlines on Friday was trying to contact a Largo passenger to apologize after an employee forced him to change out of a sexually suggestive T-shirt or risk getting thrown off the plane. The incident Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, came after Southwest Airlines created a public uproar by telling a woman on a flight in July that her outfit was too revealing for her to fly. Joe Winiecki, 39, a radiographer at Bayfront Medical Center, said he was sitting in the last row of a Columbus-to-Tampa flight when an employee told him he had to change his T-shirt, turn it inside out or get off the plane. ...more

October 5, 2007