Dade City will see a 50 percent increase in freight train traffic even if the state's commuter rail deal with CSX falls apart, a rail executive told city commissioners. ...more

March 26, 2009

Rhett Hopkins refused to pay his $4 bar tab at O'Malley's bar in Sarasota because, he said, he was an undercover officer with the Tampa Police Department and worked on homeland security. ...more

February 2, 2009

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is set to become the next chairman of the Democratic Party. ...more

January 5, 2009

Kanye West and one of his bodyguards were arrested Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport after an altercation in which the rapper allegedly smashed a camera on the floor. ...more

September 12, 2008

Democrats have made it a priority to lure more evangelical and Catholic voters from the Republican camp into their own, but the likelihood of success is becoming more problematic given pronouncements by two Catholic archbishops and a decision by the editor of an evangelical Christian magazine. ...more

August 29, 2008

GULFPORT "Brave" merchants, visionary artists and people desperate for homes with personality chased away the drug dealers and vandals. ...more

November 2, 2007

A 22-year-old man was killed today in a home invasion, and a 39-year-old woman was wounded, Clearwater police said. ...more

September 18, 2007