Lightning GM Brian Lawton has shot down reports that interim coach Rick Tocchet is already guaranteed to be behind the Tampa Bay bench next season. ...more

March 7, 2009

Authorities say a Georgia man was saved by his pants when he decided to climb 35 feet up a power pole and slipped. The pants luckily caught on the metal tower, stopping his fall. ...more

March 7, 2009

The Florida Gators and Kentucky Wildcats – both fighting for their NCAA Tournament lives – will play on the first day of next week's Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament at the St. Pete Times Forum. ...more

March 6, 2009

The Coast Guard may have ended its search Tuesday for three men lost in Gulf, but the family of one of the missing boaters refuses to give up. ...more

March 4, 2009

With each hour that passes while three boaters remain lost in the body-heat sapping waters of the Gulf of Mexico, optimism that bubbled up when a fourth man was rescued Monday is fading this afternoon. ...more

March 3, 2009

The odds were low, almost nonexistent, and Marcia Schuyler knew it. Her son had been missing for two days in the open Gulf, and though the Coast Guard was continuing its search, his chance of survival dropped with the passing of each chilly, windy hour. ...more

March 3, 2009

A 70-year-old man died Saturday afternoon in Sarasota County when he failed to make a curve on his motorcycle, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

March 1, 2009

Michael Clayton is returning to Tampa Bay. ...more

March 1, 2009

About 40,000 people attended the Pasco County Fair last week, roughly the same turnout as a year ago. ...more

February 26, 2009

Florida guard Erving Walker came off the bench to score a team-high 17 points and lead the Gators to an 82-68 victory over Vanderbilt. ...more

February 22, 2009