Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? ...more

January 6, 2009

Crystal Rusaw had scheduled a Jan. 9 Caesarean delivery for her second child, but Pasco County's first baby of 2009 had other ideas. ...more

January 3, 2009

A Tampa man struck his roommate in the head with a 3-foot metal cane Thursday afternoon, causing a 2 1/2-inch gash above the roommate's left eye, Tampa police say. ...more

January 2, 2009

Crystal Rusaw had scheduled a Jan. 9 Caesarean delivery for her second child, but Pasco County's first baby of 2009 had other ideas. Antonio Larry Rusaw waited until everyone in his family had gone to bed before starting his way into the world. His mother's water broke about 1:30 a.m. Thursday shortly after she had put her year-old daughter, Jasmine, to bed. "I had just laid down," Crystal Rusaw said Thursday afternoon as she recovered in her room at Community Hospital in New Port Richey. ...more

January 2, 2009

A police standoff with a man suspected of killing three people and kidnapping two of his children in western North Carolina ended Friday when the man turned a gun on himself, authorities said. The two children were safe in police custody and were being taken to their home, Buncombe County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Ross Dillingham said. ...more

January 2, 2009

A few minutes after Thursday afternoon's Outback Bowl, Iowa junior running back Shonn Greene announced he was leaving for the NFL draft. ...more

January 2, 2009

Hernando County's first baby of 2009 is a four-pound, 14-ounce doll. ...more

January 2, 2009