TAMPA - One hundred puppies and 28 purebred cats from the largest puppy mill rescue ever conducted in Tennessee will arrive Monday at the SPCA of Tampa Bay's shelter in Largo, according to the SPCA. ...more

June 27, 2008

Troy Dumais has become the first diver to make the U.S. Olympic team this year. ...more

June 22, 2008

TAMPA University of South Florida women's basketball assistants Jaida Williams and Shallon Pillow have accepted new jobs and are leaving USF. ...more

May 31, 2008

TAMPA -- University of South Florida women's basketball assistants Jaida Williams and Shallon Pillow have accepted new jobs and are leaving USF. Williams will be an assistant at Cal-Santa Barbara, while Pillow will be an assistant at Hofstra. ...more

May 30, 2008

Bucs tight end Alex Smith caught two touchdown passes in his first professional game, but since that performance against Minnesota in 2005, nothing has come easy for him. ...more

May 21, 2008

Regarding "Blessing Amid Tragedy" (Other Views, Feb. 11) and "Flirting With Flight At TIA: Dog Survives 6-Story Fall" (front page, Feb. 8): ...more

February 13, 2008

Hundreds of fans bid on urinals, chunks of concrete and plastic orange seats Saturday, hoping to take a little piece of the Orange Bowl home with them. ...more

February 10, 2008

TAMPA - Manatee County deputies say they have arrested a Bradenton man who robbed four banks in Manatee County and three in Sarasota County. ...more

February 6, 2008

Last week, North Carolina's LaToya Pringle was honored as the ACC Player of the Week, thanks in part to her performance in the third-ranked Tar Heels' 97-86 double-overtime victory against fourth-ranked Maryland. Pringle scored 12 of her career-high 31 points in the second overtime to cap the victory. The senior from Fayetteville, N.C., talked to The Tampa Tribune about her performance and how she would like her team to end its season in Tampa. With so many dominating players in the ACC, what does it mean to you to get this award? It feels good to finally play well against top competition in the ACC. I really wanted to attack and get into a defensive mode, but also score, so it was nice to be able to do both. Is North Carolina the team to beat in the ACC? I would think so, since we're at the top of the ACC. I think everyone wants to play their best against us. How tough is this conference right now with three teams ranked in the top 10, including two in the top five? I think it's actually the toughest conference. I know Tennessee and Connecticut are the top teams in the nation right now, but I think for a conference to be the best, you can't just have one team. We have so many teams that are ranked and ones that could be ranked. How has your game evolved at the collegiate level? I think I've extended my range. In high school, I was usually only 3 feet away from the basket. Now in college, with my height and size, I really had to extend my game. What's it like playing in the basketball Mecca of the world? I knew North Carolina was a good school and had good basketball teams. You can't really go anywhere without somebody coming up to you and saying, "I saw your game on TV" or "I came to the game." I think it's the Triangle area in general, with us, Duke and N.C. State. I think it's a huge basketball town. As it gets closer to tournament time, do you feel like your team is peaking at the right moment? After our loss to Connecticut, I think we really elevated our game to another level. I think that helped us beat Maryland and hopefully we can keep it going. Katherine Smith ...more

February 4, 2008

A redneck was stopped by a game warden in Central Mississippi recently with two ice chests full of fish. He was leaving a cove well-known for its fishing. The game warden asked the man: "Do you have a license to catch those fish?" "Nawsir" replied the redneck. "I ain't got none of them there licenses. You must understand these here are my pet fish." "Pet fish?" ...more

January 31, 2008