With each basket, each dunk, the South Florida men roared into their home basketball season Monday night at the Sun Dome. ...more

November 17, 2009

Taina Lopez feels as if no one listened to her. ...more

March 27, 2009

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers owners don't speak publicly very often, so Bucs general manager Bruce Allen spoke for them Friday. From the sound of things, the owners aren't very happy with the state of their football team. ...more

January 9, 2009

Meeting the two Tampa Bay Buccaneers players who visited patients today at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital would have been a special 12th birthday for Collin Goldstein. But when cornerback Phillip Buchanon took off his diamond watch and handed it to Collin, the birthday turned way beyond special. ...more

September 16, 2008

It should be quite a Christmas present to ourselves. Sometime this December, the massive, new Tampa Bay History Center is scheduled to open its doors in the Channelside area of downtown. ...more

August 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - It is a far cry from what happened 13 months ago, when police slashed the tents of homeless people on public rights of way, casting St. Petersburg into the national spotlight. Today, the city began enforcing another ordinance designed to force the homeless off sidewalks, but this time it used code enforcement officers and not police. And the code enforcement officers were armed only with little signs. ...more

February 1, 2008

SEBRING — Nobody at Highlands County Animal Control knows how old Harley is. The five staff members do know that this old, slow, sway-backed horse is well beyond 20 years old. And they know the veterinarian's prognosis – while Harley can't run anymore he can sometimes get up to a fast walk. This elderly horse spends his days in a six-acre pasture, and usually speeds up when he's called in for his feed by John Smith, a native of Kent, England, who is the supervisor of the animal control officers. "Harley was here when I came," said former sheriff's deputy and Fish & Game warden Darryl Scott, who will complete his first year as director of county animal control in February. ...more

January 20, 2008