After someone stole one of our newspaper racks and left its dented carcass behind a grocery store, I compiled a list of reasons not to steal a newspaper rack and leave its dented carcass behind a grocery store in an effort to discourage future crimes of this nature. ...more

October 21, 2009

I think the Tampa Theatre and I came into being the same year. Maybe I haven't held up as well, but it still gives me a thrill to go there and sit in the audience waiting for that glorious organ to come rising up from the stage, with the most wonderful music filling the hall. For a few moments, I'm a kid again, and we're singing to the bouncing ball on the screen. Oh, I never got over the thrill of it. ...more

June 8, 2009

Tara Schroeder, community relations director for Tampa Theatre, is flush with excitement over its restroom making a national top 10 list. ...more

June 3, 2009

The official opening of the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) Terminal Building at the Avon Park Municipal Airport is today, said C.B. Shirey, airport manager. ...more

May 16, 2009

A sheriff's deputy was placed on 80 hours of unpaid leave after she spent a collective 11 on-duty hours at home over a four-month period. ...more

April 10, 2009

When thousands of locations from the Empire State Building to the Great Pyramids of Giza switch their lights off Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, students from more than 60 Hillsborough County schools will have already done that. ...more

March 27, 2009

The single-engine turboprop airplane that crashed just short of Butte airport jerked to the left before nose-diving into a cemetery, killing all 14 people aboard, a witness said Monday. ...more

March 23, 2009

Indiana Jones had a good reason for crossing a dangerous, rickety swinging bridge across a deep chasm: Warriors from a bloodthirsty cult were chasing him. ...more

March 20, 2009

A 21-year-old St Petersburg woman argued with a Spirit Airlines flight crew member, punched a person in the nose and battered three law enforcement officers Monday, Tampa International Airport police say. ...more

March 3, 2009

The city of Avon Park has big plans for its municipal airport. Next month is the grand opening of the Fixed Based Operator (FBO) Administration Building. ...more

March 3, 2009