Florida's overall orange crop estimate is down by about 400,000 boxes. ...more

April 9, 2009

Offenders sentenced to wear ankle bracelets would have to pay for their own monitoring, up to about $3,300 a year, under a bill Florida lawmakers advanced Tuesday. ...more

April 1, 2009

The first few days after Ellie Aubel returned from her December mission trip to Haiti with several other members of Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, her typically familiar surroundings seemed almost surreal. ...more

March 25, 2009

Sgt. David Azuelo stepped gingerly over the specks of blood on the floor, took note of the bullet hole through the bedroom skylight, raised an eyebrow at the lack of furniture in the ranch-style house and turned to his squad of detectives investigating one of the latest home invasions in this Arizona city. ...more

March 23, 2009

Lawn-loving Tampa residents fear there's heartbreak ahead when tough new watering restrictions take effect April 3. ...more

March 21, 2009

More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday. ...more

March 18, 2009

Just as the LMP1 cars took their first turns on Promoter Test Day Tuesday, the red flag made an unwelcome appearance. ...more

March 18, 2009

Pinellas County public works engineers expect a preliminary report as early as today on why 2,700 pounds of concrete chunks rained down from the new Belleair Causeway Bridge during a construction mishap February 6 ...more

March 12, 2009

Sudan's president threatened to kick out more aid groups and expel diplomats and peacekeepers Sunday during his first trip to Darfur after an international court issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes there. ...more

March 9, 2009

A classic education it's not. ...more

March 6, 2009