A community effort to add civic activist Carol Poland's name to the New Tampa Regional Library grows louder. ...more

November 19, 2008

How do you use a peanut butter and jelly recipe to teach the scientific method? If you're Carrie Sue Ayvar, you tell a story. ...more

November 16, 2008

NEW TAMPA – A community effort to add civic activist Carol Poland's name to the New Tampa Regional Library is growing louder. Friends and supporters of the Hunter's Green resident, including former Tampa Police Chief Bennie Holder, filled the Jeri Zelinzki Community Room at the New Tampa Regional Library to speak on her behalf Nov. 6. ...more

November 7, 2008

It had been six months since they'd seen one another. But Gracy, a one-eyed, 12-year-old bichon frise, had no problem recognizing her best friend despite her drastic change in appearance. ...more

November 6, 2008

The 18-year-old woman who was beaten and raped outside Bloomingdale Regional Library returned to her south Hillsborough County home for the first time since the April 24 attack today. She had been in treatment at a Sarasota rehabilitation center for the past five months. ...more

November 5, 2008

The newest library in South Shore is about to celebrate a birthday. And everyone is invited to join in the fun. ...more

November 5, 2008

2:51 p.m.: Democrat Sam Mangione, 50, often votes for Democrats. ...more

November 4, 2008

7:30 a.m.: Annette Ferrerr had expected a huge crowd at the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Tampa when she arrived about 7:30 a.m. Instead, she found a relatively short line. She brought a magazine to keep her occupied but really didn't think she'd get through much of it. "I don't expect to be here more than an hour," she said. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:10 a.m.: Rhonda Burel seemed determined to be part of a news story today, and not in a good way. She stood in the right-turn lane off bustling Bearss Avenue in front of the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Tampa holding a McCain/Palin sign she had yanked from the ground outside the polling place. ...more

November 4, 2008

7:48 a.m.: U.S. Army Sgt. Crosby Lee, 24, had two issues at the booth today at the Jan Platt Regional Library in South Tampa. He didn't bring anything with a signature on it to vote, so he had to vote provisionally, he says. And when they looked him up in the voter records, his address came back incorrectly. ...more

November 4, 2008