Myanmar's ruling junta, faced with global outrage about its low-key response to last month's deadly cyclone, said Sunday that recovery from the catastrophe will be speedy and extolled the country's leaders for their actions in the crisis. ...more

June 2, 2008

Florida's new property tax amendment should give a boost to the state's housing market and economy, but won't spark a major turnaround, economists and real estate professors said Wednesday. ...more

January 31, 2008

The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. troop reductions in Iraq will slow or stop altogether this summer, a move that would jeopardize hopes of relieving strain on the Army and Marine Corps and revive debate over an open-ended U.S. commitment in Iraq. ...more

January 30, 2008

Back when Roy Jones Jr. was the best boxer in the world, most people thought his sport was dying. Now that boxing is back on the rise with one big fight after another, Jones is aching for a comeback of his own. ...more

January 21, 2008

Evan Longoria may know whether he'll be the Rays' Opening Day third baseman before he gets his first Grapefruit League at-bat. ...more

January 11, 2008

To echo a confession (and book title) of the late and inflated How-ward Co-sell, I never played the game. Well, not much, anyway. ...more

January 2, 2008

Chaos reigned on Halloween night after a car drove through a dead end and crashed into a Bradenton retention pond. ...more

December 31, 2007

During the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million so far on a highly classified program to help Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf secure his country's nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials. ...more

November 18, 2007

Armed to wage war over the possibility of an unwelcome new neighbor, about 50 area residents gathered Monday night at Centerpointe Church. ...more

November 17, 2007