The flocks of eager shoppers flooding through the front doors before the crack of dawn is a sight best suited for the big box stores. ...more

November 27, 2009

Five men who were arrested last year at the same time as John "Junior" Gotti will join him in New York after a judge today ordered their trial to take place there. ...more

March 3, 2009

Fire Chief Walter Mathews liked to stand up in his Hudson Touring Car while his driver charged to fires. The brazen act eventually cost Mathews his life in 1929. While speeding to the burning Alhambra Café on Franklin Street, one of his cars collided with an aerial truck at the corner of Cass Street and Florida Avenue. ...more

September 1, 2008

As illuminating juxtapositions go, this one was hard to miss. Inside the Alice Hall Community Center, nerve center for the city of pure water's election day activities, the action was as cool as the refrigerated air. Fewer than 100 yards away, lifelong friends lounged in the steamy shade cast by a blue awning while tots splashed in water park spray, both generations utterly indifferent to the day's electoral possibilities or implications. ...more

August 27, 2008

TAMPA - A largely young, racially diverse crowd of several hundred people chanting "Yes we can" at the top of their lungs showed up for the opening of Barack Obama's statewide campaign headquarters in an Ybor City office building this afternoon. ...more

July 16, 2008

some famous, some not - reflect on the lessons of that time. ...more

December 9, 2007

Astronauts swung open the door to their new space station addition Saturday and floated into the spacious and sparkling white room, formally christening it Harmony. ...more

October 28, 2007

It's too early to say whether the visit last week from presidential candidate Mitt Romney's son is the first of many stops through this part of Florida, but we hope so. ...more

September 30, 2007