During Super Bowl weekend, tens of thousands of revelers descended on the Channelside Bay Plaza entertainment complex. They ate in the restaurants and drank in the bars, meandered through the red-brick piazza and danced until dawn in nightclubs. ...more

February 8, 2009

OMAHA, Neb. - Ten children ranging in age from 1 to 17 were left at hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon not only infants but also teenagers without fear of prosecution. ...more

September 25, 2008

News of random violence from certain portions of the county notwithstanding, here on the northern tier of the Tampa Bay area we strive to be a civilized and safety-conscious society. So the pop-pop-poppa-de-pop-pop you may have heard 'round noon Thursday was not the report of celebratory small-arms fire strafing the sky - as oddly appropriate as that may have been. ...more

June 29, 2008

Apparel retailers who once saw the government's economic stimulus plan as way to heat up winter's dismal sales are wondering if it's ever going to get warm. ...more

June 3, 2008

Resource Management Regarding "The $40 Million Question" (Metro, Nov. 8): Amid the overheated rhetoric of county commissioners who should know better (kids have only two choices: crack addiction or baseball? Really!), here's another plan: ...more

November 15, 2007

SEBRING — Land values have increased significantly since 1993 in Highlands County. But the fee assessed on building permits to fund acquisition of conservation lands has remained the same since it was adopted 14 years ago. As a result, in December, the Highlands County commissioners are expected to consider a request from the county's Natural Resources Advisory Commission to raise the "environmental clearance waiver fee." That fee, assessed on building permits on two acres or less, has never been changed from its original levels of $100 for residential and $250 for commercial. "The resources that that fee were intended to purchase have become vastly more expensive" over the past 14 years, said Reed Bowman, chairman of NRAC's Environmental Fees Committee. ...more

November 13, 2007

Congress on Thursday approved legislation adding 4 million children to a popular health care program, setting up a veto fight that President Bush will probably win but that would hand Democrats a campaign issue for next year's elections. ...more

September 28, 2007