Recent inspections of the Tampa Convention Center's new fire alarm system have found a number of deficiencies, including faulty strobe lights and smoke detectors, raising questions about the safety of a city-owned facility that hosts tens of thousands of people. ...more

March 6, 2009

Recent inspections of the Tampa Convention Center's new fire alarm system have found a number of deficiencies, including faulty strobe lights and smoke detectors, raising questions about the safety of a city-owned facility that hosts tens of thousands. ...more

March 5, 2009

The fastest of the fast in Saturday's 15k were the elite athletes in the wheelchair division, several of whom smoked the course with sub-35 minute times in a chase for a prize purse going nine places deep in the open division and offering $1,500 for the first-place male and female. ...more

March 1, 2009

Hundreds of people packed the Tampa Convention Center's East Hall for the 8 On Your Side Health and Fitness Expo today. ...more

February 27, 2009

Dylan Waddle is not the average eighth-grader at Charles S. Rushe Middle School. Instead of spending the summer playing, he fixed a marxophone with his grandfather, Charles Taylor. ...more

February 25, 2009

At 4 years old, Rylie Vasquez is already a veteran of the Gasparilla Pageant as she posed, smiled and twirled for the judges today in her second year as a contestant. ...more

February 22, 2009

The Publix Super Markets Gasparilla Distance Classic 15-kilometer and 5k runs; The Sports Authority Marathon, Half Marathon and Marathon Relay; The 8 On Your Side Health and Fitness Expo. ...more

February 21, 2009

Not signed up for next weekend's Gasparilla Distance Classic but still want a good dose of health and fitness? ...more

February 21, 2009

Companies that took billion-dollar taxpayer bailouts have pulled back from corporate trips perceived as extravagant. Now the withdrawal is being felt in the Bay area. ...more

February 12, 2009

Companies that took billion-dollar taxpayer bailouts have pulled back from corporate trips perceived as extravagant. Now the withdrawal is being felt in Tampa Bay. ...more

February 11, 2009