BUSINESS BRIEFS TAMPA BAY AREA Power Demand To Surge Record energy use normally occurs during a summer heat wave amid near-100-degree temperatures. St. Petersburg-based Progress Energy Florida flipped that scenario around, saying demand for electricity may reach record levels this morning as temperatures dip into the 20s and customers try to stay warm. Demand for electricity peaked on Jan. 24, 2003, when customers used 10,076 megawatt-hours of power. ...more

January 3, 2008

A fast-moving New Year's Day storm dumped more than a foot of snow on southeastern Michigan, a record blast that made driving hazardous, snarled flights home for holiday travelers and threatened to do the same in New England. ...more

January 2, 2008

Holiday travelers to Tampa International Airport encountered only a handful of delays Monday and mostly during the morning after winter storms blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast over the weekend. ...more

December 25, 2007

Highways were hazardous for holiday travelers Sunday and thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity in the Midwest as a storm blustered through the region with heavy snow and howling wind. ...more

December 24, 2007

As much as a foot of snow fell from the Plains across the Midwest on Saturday, snarling road and air travel, as the second big winter storm in a week barreled through on its way to New England. ...more

December 16, 2007

Stan Turner awoke Tuesday to find not only was his home without power but also that an ice-coated tree limb had crashed into his classic Ford Mustang. The only heat available for the house came from a fireplace, a wood-burning chimenea on the porch and a gas stove. ...more

December 12, 2007

An ice storm grounded airline flights and knocked out power to thousands of customers from Oklahoma to Illinois on Sunday. ...more

December 10, 2007

Dodging tires, furniture and geysers of water, Bert Carver paddled a borrowed plastic boat through the murky streets of a defeated neighborhood. ...more

December 6, 2007

A storm system slid across the Northeast with snow, sleet and freezing rain Sunday, glazing roads and tying up air travel after blacking out thousands of customers in the Midwest. ...more

December 3, 2007