LAKELAND - Dale Borgelt brought no X-rays to the Lakeland Center stage on Tuesday night - just pain, faith and a sheet of paper listing his date with a surgeon. ...more

May 1, 2008

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said he offered to shore up $800 billion of municipal bonds guaranteed by troubled MBIA Inc., Ambac Financial Group Inc. and FGIC Corp. in a bid to gain 33 percent of the debt insurance market. ...more

February 13, 2008

Tampa drivers have a need for speed, at least when they hit Interstate 75. A report released Thursday says Tampa Bay area drivers have a heavier foot on "suburban/rural" highways, such as I-75, than drivers on the same type of roads in the seven other metro areas studied across the country. ...more

February 1, 2008

Tampa drivers have a need for speed, at least when they hit Interstate 75. A report released Thursday says Tampa Bay area drivers have a heavier foot on "suburban/rural" highways, such as I-75, than drivers on the same type of roads in the seven other metro areas studied across the country. ...more

January 31, 2008

During a telephone news conference this week, I began to feel a little of Simon Cowell's pain as he spoke about the torturous ordeal of the audition process for "American Idol." ...more

January 10, 2008

The teen gunman who fatally shot eight people in a mall on Dec. 5 tried to kill himself by swallowing about 30 pills nearly two years earlier, according to court records released Wednesday. ...more

December 27, 2007

About 50 employees held hands and lined across a department store's entrance Thursday before parting to let a crowd of holiday shoppers enter for the first time since a gunman killed eight people there 15 days earlier. ...more

December 21, 2007

Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. And nearly 40 years after they went to high school with him, friends remember Gary Joy as a quiet and shy gentleman. ...more

December 10, 2007

Initially downplayed by Tampa Bay Water officials, the huge cracks in the walls of the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir have turned into an expensive problem. ...more

December 9, 2007

Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims. ...more

December 8, 2007