Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a new 20-year, $6.8 billion gambling compact with the Seminole Tribe, hours before tonight's deadline. ...more

August 31, 2009

Wesley Chapel and Pasco County were hotbeds of lacrosse this past weekend as they hosted the Sunshine State Games' inaugural lacrosse tournament. ...more

June 17, 2009

Legislative negotiators have agreed on a plan to expand gambling at Seminole Indian casinos. ...more

May 6, 2009

House and Senate negotiators have agreed the state's share of expanded gambling at Seminole Indian casinos should go to education. ...more

May 5, 2009

A growing number of people calling the state's gambling help line are asking for help with blackjack addiction. ...more

February 23, 2009

The Dick's Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions, which featured some of the best high school club lacrosse teams in North America fighting it out for the national championship in Wesley Chapel last weekend, doesn't need to look for another site next year. ...more

January 9, 2008

Teams from across the United States and Canada already had long left the Wesley Chapel District Park, yet there was Josh Gross, sales and public relations manager for NDP Lacrosse, which ran this past weekend's Dick's Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions. ...more

January 6, 2008

Tom FitzSimons knew entering Saturday's first round of the Dick's Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions that his neophyte Tampa Tribe lacrosse elite team would be overmatched. ...more

January 6, 2008

I never have to check the calendar to see if the Christmas season is approaching. As soon as the "season to be jolly" approaches all those jolly-challenged people begin their sniping. I think Jack Frost is nipping at more than their noses and some people are nipping at more than hot chocolate. ...more

December 18, 2007

Regarding "Rolling The Dice On Ambition" (Metro, Nov. 27): State Rep. Marco Rubio may be the political opportunist that Dan Ruth infers, but that is not what has created this clamor. ...more

November 30, 2007