For the second time in less than a month, a multimillion-dollar Lotto ticket has been sold in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

February 22, 2008

PINELLAS PARK - For the second time in less than a month, a multimillion-dollar Lotto ticket has been sold in the Bay area. ...more

February 21, 2008

These days little children are brought along to places that would have been considered inappropriate a generation ago: four-star restaurants, cocktail parties, rock concerts. But for all the sniping from adults who resent this territorial invasion, the onslaught shows no sign of letting up. ...more

February 12, 2008

This was just the type of moment when Gaither coach Eric Sims expected his best players to make the game's biggest plays. Luckily for the Cowboys, Brendan Howard didn't disappoint. ...more

January 24, 2008

Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran. ...more

January 20, 2008

We have come to Week 17, and while most leagues already have wrapped up postseason play, there are still a select few leagues out there that have their title games scheduled for this week. Congrats to those of you who took home the hardware in your respective leagues, and for the rest of you, there's always ...well, you know how it goes. ...more

December 26, 2007

The scoreboard at Tom Fisher Memorial Stadium still had Hernando High on the losing side Wednesday night. ...more

December 25, 2007

AVON PARK — It's 4:30 a.m. Friday. A woman parked in front of Belk department store. Two children also got out. "Get in line," she instructed the pre-teen boy and girl. They didn't move fast enough. "Run like your life depends on it," she yelled. They giggled and made it a race for the back of the line, while she walked more slowly. An after-Thanksgiving sale crowd of 200 people was already waiting to get in, and Christina Starcher was first. She held up a sale flyer from the newspaper, and pointed to a silver-colored Fossil watch with a black face for $115. ...more

November 24, 2007

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Ray Markham. ...more

October 24, 2007

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Deborah Pryce, the Republican congresswoman, in her Washington office. There was a doll propped up against a windowsill, and I wanted to ask her if it had belonged to her daughter, who died of cancer at age 9 in 1999. But that question seemed to trespass on something out of bounds, so I asked about her re-election campaign in 2006. ...more

October 18, 2007