The engagement is off for the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the father of her baby. Levi Johnston told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he and Bristol Palin mutually decided "awhile ago" to end their relationship. The 19-year-old Johnston declined to elaborate. ...more

March 12, 2009

Barack Obama radiated confidence Monday as he and his presidential rival reached for the finish line of a two-year marathon with a burst of campaigning across battlegrounds from the Atlantic Coast to Arizona. ...more

November 4, 2008

Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the Tampa Bay area Saturday warning that Barack Obama is trying to "exploit" retirees' fears about what the GOP presidential ticket would do to Medicare and Social Security. ...more

November 2, 2008

Well, you can stall for only so long. Come Tuesday, like it or not, you are going to have to go down to your precinct and pencil in the bubbles. ...more

November 2, 2008

Billy Joe Shannon, a local Democratic activist campaigning for his party's local candidates and presidential ticket, got up about 5:30 a.m. Friday and let "Romeo," his poodle, out into his front yard on Mackerel Drive. ...more

September 28, 2008

Sen. John McCain surprised the political world on Friday by naming Sarah Palin, a little-known Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom" with almost no foreign policy experience, as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket. ...more

August 30, 2008

John McCain tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate, two senior campaign officials told The Associated Press on Friday. ...more

August 29, 2008

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist said today that his support of Sen. John McCain's plan to lift the federal moratorium on off-shore oil drilling has nothing to do with McCain's consideration of him as a vice presidential candidate. ...more

June 17, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Hillary for VP. That's the message from Sen. Bill Nelson, who has been widely rumored to be a contender himself for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic presidential ticket. ...more

June 16, 2008

Of course it's hard to pinpoint all the blame because nobody is actually in charge. The governor has apparently decided he would rather kiss up out in Arizona and get on a presidential ticket than do anything for the people who voted him into office. The agency that is supposed to work with the developmentally disabled is incompetent and the Legislature is well - the Florida Legislature. ...more

June 1, 2008