A traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." ...more

December 3, 2009

Dry conditions are triggering more brush fires than usual and authorities are trying harder to alert motorists to the smoky hazards after last year's deadly pileup on Interstate 4. ...more

March 11, 2009

Ideal weather might have been the hallmark of the 2009 Southwest Airlines Gasparilla Pirate Fest. After a spate of cold, winter weather, Saturday's blue skies and warm temperatures greeted thousands of revelers who lined Bayshore Boulevard and streamed into downtown Tampa to encounter a bloodthirsty band of pirates whose annual invasion is Tampa's signature event. ...more

February 8, 2009

Firefighters have knocked down a 50 acre brush fire in Hernando County that closed Highway 301 this afternoon, but the highway remains closed in both directions between State Road 50 and Highway 98. ...more

February 6, 2009

Armed with graph after graph showing improvements in the police department's performance, St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon this afternoon tried to beat back the impression among some city council members that St. Petersburg has become less safe. ...more

February 5, 2009

Attacks on cabdrivers have dropped dramatically since police offered safety tips after a spate of robberies from January 2008 through July. ...more

January 15, 2009

The Hillsborough County Commission has tentatively settled a lawsuit by a public access television network over $355,000 in budget cuts to the station. ...more

January 6, 2009

A car bomb killed at least 24 people, many of them Shiite pilgrims, and wounded 46 others when it exploded Saturday on a busy road in Baghdad that leads to the revered shrine of Kadhimiya, according to the Ministry of Interior. ...more

December 28, 2008

Pending U.S. home sales fell slightly in October, despite a spate of bad economic news and turmoil in the stock markets, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. ...more

December 10, 2008

As a consistent and determined advocate on behalf of liberty and personal responsibility, This Space is second-to-none in its empathy with all who decry the recent spate of government bailouts for foundering industries. Those corporate captains who have come, hat-in-hand, fresh from private jets to lament precarious times - hoist them on their own platinum petards. ...more

December 3, 2008