No one has to convince James Shields about new addition Pat Burrell's potential worth to the Rays. His memories of three battles with Burrell in Game 2 of the World Series remain fresh. ...more

January 15, 2009

Rays Show Off New Alternate Uniforms ...more

January 14, 2009

The bottoms of my 15-piece tea set are marked in blue letters "Hand Painted" with a sunburst below and the word "Nippon." In addition, there is a hand-painted mark in gold: "Ella, Sept. 1917." ...more

November 23, 2008

The bottoms of my 15-piece tea set are marked in blue letters "Hand Painted" with a sunburst below and the word "Nippon." In addition, there is a hand-painted mark in gold: "Ella, Sept. 1917." The set is hand-painted with flowers. I would like to know the value and history of Nippon. ...more

November 18, 2008

Have you shopped for furniture lately? Welcome to a world where virtually everything is brown, or some shade of brown. The stores try to fool us by calling the shade chocolate, or taffy, or cappuccino (as if it were food, not furniture), but no one is fooled. It's brown, and brown, and more brown. ...more

July 20, 2008

Shanna Rodriguez was so eager to see her husband after his four-month deployment in Qatar she showed up an hour before his flight arrived Friday at Tampa International Airport. ...more

December 8, 2007

Since at least August, dozens of residents in areas near Dade City have come home to find someone had broken in and taken prized possessions. ...more

December 8, 2007

TAMPA - Shanna Rodriguez was so eager to see her husband after four months' deployment in Qatar she showed up an hour before his flight arrived Friday at Tampa International Airport. ...more

December 7, 2007

He sounds as Southern as moon pies and talks as fast as a cattle auctioneer. ...more

November 30, 2007

Baseball purists and civic-pride enthusiasts, take heart: It appears "Tampa Bay" will have a place on the Rays' redesigned uniforms - just not until 2009. ...more

November 16, 2007