Security will be so thorough that Raymond James Stadium will be the safest place in the country on Super Bowl Sunday, an NFL security representative said. ...more

January 28, 2009

PLANT CITY -- Security will be so thorough that Raymond James Stadium will be the safest place in the country on Super Bowl Sunday, an NFL security representative said today. Dan Grossi, a retired Tampa police officer who works for the National Football League's security division, said the NFL and local, state and federal officers have worked for months to come up with a plan to keep the game safe. Grossi was featured speaker at the monthly breakfast meeting of the Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce. ...more

January 14, 2009

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers. ...more

October 22, 2008

This city still can call itself home to one of the world's largest electronics makers. ...more

September 13, 2008

A security checkpoint helped keep a gunman from passing through the Pinellas County Judicial Building on Wednesday, but the system is not in place at the much larger, busier court center in downtown Clearwater. ...more

May 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A security checkpoint system helped keep a gunman from passing through the Pinellas County Judicial Building on Wednesday, but it's not in place at the much larger, busier court center in downtown Clearwater. All visitors to the downtown St. Petersburg court building and the Criminal Justice Center on 49th Street North must walk through a metal detector and have their items screened by magnetometers, or X-ray machines, before entering. In Clearwater, the seat of county government, people enter the main courts complex from several access points. Bailiffs guard only a section of the complex housing the courtrooms and judicial chambers and only visitors to that section are screened by security inspection equipment. ...more

May 7, 2008

The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile made its regularly scheduled stop at Lacoochee Elementary School on Friday. ...more

January 18, 2008

Admission to the Hernando County government center will require security checks for visitors and employees alike if county commissioners approve a recommendation by staff. ...more

December 15, 2007