TAMPA — The struggle over the independence of the Byrd Alzheimer's center eased today when the institute's board agreed to an affiliation with the University of South Florida. Directors of the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute approved a plan to form a separate, seven-member board that would control the purse strings of the center and would include four USF representatives. The plan also would install USF health sciences Vice President Steve Klasko as the center's chief executive officer. ...more

June 20, 2008

The state releases FCAT scores in math, reading and science for grades 4 to 10. Students doing OK in reading and math, but science remains a struggle. ...more

June 10, 2008

A burglar's knife was no match Saturday morning for Walter Funk's wrench and pluck, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

May 11, 2008

SEMINOLE A would-be burglar's knife was no match Saturday morning for Walter Funk's wrench and pluck, the Pinellas sheriff's office reported. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - A Pinellas County man who escaped from police custody Thursday has been recaptured, Pinellas Park police say. ...more

May 2, 2008

A man hacked a psychologist to death with a meat cleaver at her Upper East Side office and seriously injured a male therapist who tried to help her, police said. ...more

February 14, 2008

The largest political story of the last year has not been the struggle for conservative self-definition, or the racially charged fight between Clintonistas and other Democrats, or the infinitely varied failures of the Democratic Congress. It has been the turnaround in Iraq. ...more

February 8, 2008

Norma McCulliss of Palm Harbor urges support for the Lupus Foundation of America. ...more

January 29, 2008

SEBRING — Sheriff's deputies captured a man Friday in the Francis II Mobile Home park who was a suspect in an aggravated battery and attempted burglary the same morning on Ferdinand Street in Sebring. ...more

January 18, 2008

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Brad Richards was convinced of that late last week. ...more

January 14, 2008