Thanks to a teacher's discount we managed to spend two nights last week at a resort on St. Pete Beach. The room had a spectacular view of the gravel roof, but the price was right and the beach was just beyond the back door. ...more

June 20, 2008

The Tampa Tribune RUNNING Sunday ...more

June 14, 2008

SOUTH PASADENA - An 80-year-old Seminole man died Tuesday night after the sport utility vehicle he was driving veered into oncoming traffic on Pasadena Avenue and crashed into a car head-on, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

June 11, 2008

TAMPA - Intense thunderstorm activity in southern Pinellas County this evening dropped pea- to quarter-size hail, said Nick Petro, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. ...more

June 6, 2008

A donation saved the Fourth of July fireworks display for Tarpon Springs that a tight budget forced the city to cancel. ...more

June 3, 2008

Tight budgets and rising fireworks prices might mean less pop and more fizzle in fireworks displays this Fourth of July. ...more

June 3, 2008

TAMPA - Tight budgets and a sagging economy may mean less pop and more fizzle in some fireworks displays this Fourth of July. ...more

June 2, 2008

RUNNING Friday Run For Shelter 5K Centro Ybor, Tampa ...more

May 30, 2008

St. Pete Beach has become a living laboratory to study the statewide consequences of a proposed constitutional amendment called Hometown Democracy. ...more

May 28, 2008

CONSIDER THE PALATE UNLEASHED It's safe to say that this year's Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival, held last weekend at the Don CeSar Beach Resort in St. Pete Beach, went much smoother than last year's inaugural event, which suffered from canceled seminars and complicated parking arrangements. As a spinoff of the massively successful South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami Beach, it also suffered last year from expectations that the Tampa Bay version would approximate the same style and flair. ...more

May 20, 2008