Playing for former major-leaguer Chet Lemon's Orlando-based under-12 baseball team, Tampa's Jordan Parnell earned MVP honors at the inaugural National Youth Baseball Championship after recording a 2-0 record and a 3.75 ERA and hitting .545 (6-for-11) with five RBIs and five runs scored during the weeklong tournament in Memphis, Tenn. ...more

September 3, 2008

The Tampa Boltz Baseball Club captured a national championship with its victory against the Titans from Greensboro, N.C., in the final game of the AAU National Tournament at Disney's Wide World of Sports. ...more

August 6, 2008

A Tennessee woman has been charged with attempted homicide for trying to poison her 4-month-old son at a city hospital by injecting a saltwater solution into his feeding tube, police said. ...more

July 17, 2008

Slowly but surely, Ybor City's art scene is experiencing a resurgence. That's how it seems to Brad Cooper and Walter Romeo, two longtime Ybor residents and artists who have seen new artists and ventures revitalize the community in recent years. ...more

July 2, 2008

Noah Wilcox was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning with the bases loaded on Saturday to hand Okeechobee a 2-1 victory over Sebring in the opening round of the Dixie 14-year-old District 8 tournament at Okeechobee Sports Complex. ...more

June 28, 2008

TAMPA - With four lettuce-chomping giraffes watching, Navy corpsman Hubert Akers, just back from a six-month tour in Kuwait, rolled up on his 8-year-old son in a reunion fitting for the Serengeti plain, Busch Gardens style. ...more

May 23, 2008

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport a $1.5 million grant to improve safety and security and for renovation of the terminal, airport spokeswoman Michele Routh said. ...more

May 6, 2008

ENGLEWOOD - One of Nathan Lee's biggest fears is that his sons will grow up with no real memories of their mother, so every evening he has 2-year-old Noah kiss her good night. ...more

February 7, 2008

Bill Dailey takes a dim view of teaching evolution in his letter of Jan. 15. He cites a 1914 book as evidence that evolution has been taught since then, with little to show for it. If he had bothered to look up evolution in the World Book Encyclopedia he would have found," Few public schoo1s 'included' evolution in the biology curricula for many years after the [Scopes]_trial." ...more

February 6, 2008

MAGIC 96, CELTICS 93 BOSTON (93) - Pierce 9-18 6-6 24, Scalabrine 0-1 1-2 1, Perkins 2-4 3-3 7, Rondo 6-16 3-3 15, R.Allen 7-18 0-0 17, Powe 4-10 1-2 9, Posey 5-10 2-2 16, T.Allen 1-2 0-0 2, House 1-5 0-0 2, Pruitt 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-84 16-18 93. ORLANDO (96) - Turkoglu 8-18 8-9 27, Lewis 5-11 4-4 15, Howard 6-10 6-6 18, Arroyo 1-5 0-0 2, Evans 5-8 0-0 11, Foyle 1-2 0-0 2, Bogans 1-6 0-0 2, Dooling 3-7 1-1 8, Cook 4-7 0-0 11. Totals 34-74 19-20 96. ...more

January 28, 2008