Let me see if I have it right: Older Americans ought to keep working in order to lighten the burden of Social Security and assorted benefits on younger generations. ...more

March 22, 2009

A new report issued by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston finds a "dramatic surge" in homicides involving black juveniles and guns — but leaves Florida and Washington, D.C., out of the analysis. ...more

December 29, 2008

John McCain and Barack Obama meet Friday at the University of Mississippi for their first of three 90-minute debates -- showdowns that experts say could be their last best chances to move undecided voters. ...more

September 23, 2008

Republican White House contender Willard Mitt Romney is stumping Florida after his victory in the Jan. 15 Michigan primary. He won there largely by posing as a high-priest of prosperity. ...more

January 24, 2008

TAMPA - Publix Super Markets has settled a consumer suit alleging that two ingredients of the grocer's private-label diet lemon lime soft drinks could combine under heat exposure to form benzene, which has been known to cause cancer. ...more

January 8, 2008

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