Faced with a potential budget deficit of $100 million-plus - and growing - Hillsborough County officials confirmed Friday that they are considering cutting the county payroll by as many as 1,000 positions over the next two years. ...more

March 28, 2009

Faced with a potential budget deficit of $100 million-plus _ and growing _ Hillsborough County officials confirmed Friday they are considering cutting the county payroll by as many as 1,000 positions over the next two years. ...more

March 27, 2009

A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say. ...more

February 27, 2009

He has arrived. Now who is "he"? Todd Smith, 43, the new executive director of the Tampa Museum of Art, says he already is pretty comfortable with Tampa and his new job, even though he has been here only about a month. ...more

November 16, 2008

At a lunch meeting Thursday with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, former President Clinton said he would do "a substantial number of things" to for Obama's campaign this fall. ...more

September 12, 2008