For 30 years, the Finnegan family has helped Sun City Center area residents make the world around them a better sight. ...more

December 17, 2008

The last year has been a virtual game of musical chairs for many Dade City merchants. So many have moved or closed, the local Main Street organization is redesigning its brochures. ...more

October 25, 2008

DENVER (AP) - Workers erected a heavy metal fence around the Democratic National Convention Center site Friday while visitors strolled through a nearby shopping district that was decorated with brightly colored flags rustling in a breeze. ...more

August 24, 2008

The young investment whiz locked her eyes on the computer screen and calmly clicked the "buy" button for 100 shares of Gizmo Tech. ...more

August 10, 2008

Florence, S.C. resident Nachenga Robinson was taking her three children and a friend of her father's to a Pinellas Park Wal-Mart when she was killed when her car was struck by a person police said was fleeing from an undercover drug sting. ...more

July 19, 2008

The Temple Terrace City Council moved Tuesday toward closing its deal with the master developer of the city's downtown revitalization project. ...more

June 21, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - The Temple Terrace City Council moved Tuesday, June 17, toward closing its deal with the master developer of the city's downtown revitalization project. The council unanimously approved Aug. 15 as the date city officials will sign a $14.9 million contract to turn over 20.36 acres of a blighted shopping district southeast of Bullard Parkway and 56th Street to the partnership of Ram Development Co. and Pinnacle Realty Advisors. In turn, the developer has plans to build a $45 million mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly center that will include 245,479 square feet of retail, residential, restaurant, office and civic/cultural components. ...more

June 17, 2008

Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. ...more

February 2, 2008

A new study that ranks the Tampa area dead last among 30 cities as a "walkable urban place" leaves the false impression that life here is conducted at the drive-through window. ...more

December 10, 2007

This small community prides itself on its pretty, pedestrian-friendly downtown. City leaders are wondering how to make sure downtown stays appealing, in spite of construction and renovation projects. ...more

November 13, 2007