Jay Leno's final "Tonight Show" telecast registered the show's highest Friday ratings in Leno's 17-year run as host. The telecast averaged an 8.8 rating/20 share, according to preliminary numbers from Nielsen Media Research. ...more

June 1, 2009

Changes made at a homeless camp in Hudson should satisfy a judge at an April 1 hearing about county citations for zoning and building code violations, an attorney representing Elisha Ministries said. Beverly Barnett, a member of the Waller & Mitchell & Barnett law firm, said she has been representing the Elisha charitable organization pro bono since December when the facility first ran afoul of county inspectors. ...more

April 1, 2009

Changes made at a homeless camp in Hudson should satisfy a judge at a hearing today about county citations for zoning and building code violations, an attorney representing Elisha Ministries said. ...more

April 1, 2009

Four Boy Scouts with Troop 808, two 12-year-olds and two 13-year-olds, were awarded a national honor, the Medal of Merit, for their role last July in rescuing a woman from the cold waters of the Nantahala River in North Carolina. ...more

March 2, 2009

Innovative Steel Technologies Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. ...more

November 26, 2008

Think John McCain will seal the votes of senior citizens simply because they may share the aches and wrinkles of age? Not so fast. ...more

November 2, 2008

This one was for Ted and Jeanne Sachs in Section 305. Ted, 78, and his 74-year-old wife moved from Lake Charles, La., to Largo six years ago, but they didn't truly arrive until Saturday at Tropicana Field, where the Rays clinched an improbable postseason berth with a 7-2 triumph against the Twins. ...more

September 21, 2008

Inflation is running at the fastest pace in 17 years, the job market is under further strain and foreclosure filings are surging. ...more

August 15, 2008

Draper Laboratory made it official today. The Massachusetts-based research corporation announced that it will open an estimated $20 million research center at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a microchip manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg. ...more

July 28, 2008

Had everything gone as planned, the developers of Trinity Town Center would be preparing to open the final handful of buildings at the upscale shopping complex. ...more

July 20, 2008