The Gulf Buccaneers (17-8) had to spend about a week slowing things down due to various injuries and the flu bug that hit six of nine players. ...more

January 29, 2008

TAMPA - A motorcyclist who won a jury verdict for nearly $18 million against the city of Tampa is one step closer to collecting. ...more

January 24, 2008

David Hicks, the only person sentenced by the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try terrorism suspects, walked out of prison in Australia this morning after serving nine months for providing support to a terrorist organization. ...more

December 29, 2007

Hillsborough Government offices: Closed Monday and Tuesday. ...more

December 22, 2007

Despite a hiring freeze and other cost-savings measures in place at the state's 11 public universities, President Bernie Machen has received an extension and a healthy pay boost from the University of Florida trustees. ...more

December 22, 2007

Hillsborough County is looking for a volunteer to serve on the University Area Enterprise Zone Development Agency Board. ...more

December 22, 2007

The notion of not seeing Alonzo Mourning play basketball again is a difficult one for the Miami Heat to accept. ...more

December 21, 2007

It's a choice between convenience and lifestyle. County planners and consultants warn that unless Lithia-Pinecrest Road is widened to six lanes from County Road 39 to State Road 60, the 10.7-mile drive will consume more than an hour's worth of a driver's time 10 years from now. ...more

December 10, 2007

AVON PARK — After 22 games and two seasons without a playoff appearance, Earnest Perkins has been fired as Avon Park High School varsity football coach. AP Principal Stu Guthrie said the decision "was his alone," and although he characterized the move as "not easy," Guthrie said a change at the top was "one that was necessary." "Sometimes in coaching, much like life, things just don't work out the way we would have liked for them to," Guthrie said in a written statement. "I think this is the case in this situation. I have the utmost respect for coach Perkins, but a change was necessary." ...more

November 28, 2007

Dennis Dixon will have surgery on the left knee that buckled early in second-ranked Oregon's upset loss to Arizona on Thursday night, spoiling his chance to win the Heisman Trophy. ...more

November 17, 2007