For decades, people who couldn't be identified or who died with no money for their funerals were left for the county to bury. ...more

September 17, 2009

ITunes Changes Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection. ...more

January 7, 2009

From hard-hitting tales of mystery and suspense to commentaries and memoirs, Marshall Frank is a published author who brings personal experience to his work - and to his readers. ...more

July 24, 2008

It's not very often that a player gets the chance to turn back the clock on his career. That, though, is the kind of chance Bucs safety Sabby Piscitelli is getting this year. ...more

June 17, 2008

Vincent Eurice spent four hours Monday sifting through thousands of items sprawling across the parking lot of the sheriff's office. ...more

May 6, 2008

Adults led groups of children from table to table to try their tiny hands at a variety of paper crafts. They glued cotton balls to bunnies' backs, dipped butterflies on Popsicle sticks into pans of glitter and pasted petals onto smiley-faced flowers. ...more

February 24, 2008

How long should it take to plant 18,000 saplings in beach sand? Volunteers participating in a beach dune protection project in Honeymoon Island State Park will find out next weekend. From 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9-10, park staff and volunteers will plant native greens in sand dunes newly created by the Honeymoon Island beach renourishment project, Karen Malo, a Florida Park Services specialist, said. ...more

February 2, 2008

After waking up Thanksgiving morning and getting my 26-pound turkey stuffed and in the oven, I took the rare opportunity to sit down with my lovely new bride, Michele, and peruse that morning's Tampa Tribune over a cup of strong coffee. As Michele enthusiastically plunged into the pile of post-Thanksgiving sales ads, I made my way through the sports, national and local news and eventually to the obituaries, which I check with regularity to make sure I'm not listed. ...more

December 3, 2007