A Clearwater man has filed an ethics complaint against state House Speaker Ray Sansom in response to media reports that he may have traded state appropriations for a cozy academic job. ...more

December 29, 2008

Sen. Victor Crist's promotions firm has a $40,000 contract with a University of South Florida organization to drum up support for the university's growing diabetes research initiative. ...more

December 18, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist reflected this week in an interview with The Tampa Tribune on current controversies, the highs and lows of 2008 and what lies ahead in 2009. ...more

December 14, 2008

Zoo Needs Good Cleaning I have been a volunteer docent at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo for over six years, which is why I've kept my mouth shut up to now, but enough is enough. Read the exact words used by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in temporarily revoking the memberships of both zoo President Lex Salisbury and animal Collections Director Larry Killmar: "for intentionally failing to abide" by the association's policies, etc. ...more

December 10, 2008

Well, that didn't take long. Newly sworn-in Florida Speaker of the House Ray Sansom wasn't even on the job a day when it was revealed he also took another new job - a $110,000-a-year vice president's position at his alma mater, Northwest Florida State College, formerly known as Okaloosa-Walton Community College. ...more

December 5, 2008

A 31-year-old woman found slain last week will be buried in northwest Florida, with visitation in Tampa, a funeral home said today. ...more

November 25, 2008

Days after becoming Florida's new House speaker, Republican Ray Sansom has taken on a second job - a $110,000 yearly post as chief of the fundraising department of a state college in his district. ...more

November 20, 2008

Two of the state's largest blood centers, Florida Blood Services of St. Petersburg and Southeastern Community Blood Center of Tallahassee, are consolidating, in line with national health care reform initiatives to pool resources and expertise. ...more

November 17, 2008

TAMPA - The state attorney general's newest CyberCrime office opened Wednesday in Tampa, an initiative the agency said will bolster efforts to nab sexual predators online. ...more

July 3, 2008

Divers on Sunday recovered the bodies of the two people still missing after the small plane they were on crashed in Northwest Florida after taking off from Cedar Key Airport, authorities said. ...more

June 9, 2008