About 4,000 women are expected to pack Idlewild Baptist Church to hear from Christian speakers and entertainers headlining the Extraordinary Women's Conference, a traveling event. ...more

March 13, 2009

About 4,000 women are expected to pack Idlewild Baptist Church to hear from Christian speakers and entertainers headlining the Extraordinary Women's Conference, a traveling event. ...more

March 11, 2009

As families and advocates ask Gov. Charlie Crist to veto budget cuts affecting the developmentally disabled, lawmakers are trying to find a way to restore at least some of those dollars. ...more

January 24, 2009

Sarasota County deputies arrested a registered sex offender Thursday night that they say absconded from Massachusetts in spring 2008. ...more

January 16, 2009

Cases are piling up in Florida's courts. The prison population is growing. Assault, robbery, burglary and fraud are on the rise. ...more

December 17, 2008

Navy Lt. Melane Byrd, daughter of Melane and Johnnie B. Byrd Jr., recently returned home from a seven-month deployment to the Persian Gulf with the aircraft carrier USS Truman in Virginia Beach, Va. ...more

August 6, 2008

The number of Americans who have seen their full-time jobs chopped to part-time because of weak business has swelled to more than 3.7 million - the largest figure since the government began tracking such data more than half a century ago. ...more

August 3, 2008

This is reprinted from the spring 2008 issue of FORUM, the statewide magazine of the Florida Humanities Council ( www.flahum.org.) ...more

June 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - It's taken nearly 30 years for American Stage Theatre Company to produce a play by Harold Pinter, the British playwright and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...more

May 31, 2008

Continued job losses helped propel Tampa Bay's economy into last place in a semiannual ranking of six Southern cities, according to a new report by the Tampa Bay Partnership. ...more

May 20, 2008