The speed limit on Meadow Pointe Boulevard is going up. Pasco County commissioners Tuesday morning approved a plan to raise the speed limit for the two-lane road to 45 mph between State Road 54 and Sheringham Way and to 40 mph south to Beardsley Drive. ...more

November 4, 2009

"Paranormal Activity" has won a weekend battle of fright films over part six of the "Saw" franchise. ...more

October 25, 2009

The city wants to spend $150,000 to study whether it would benefit from a partnership with Hillsborough County to buy a new computer software system. ...more

September 16, 2009

A key barometer of the U.S. economy, a seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index reported by the American Trucking Associations, improved 2.1 percent in July, showing that a trucking slump may have bottomed out. ...more

August 29, 2009

Banks expanded at a breathtaking pace in the past five years, adding more than 10,000 full-service branches, but barely 1 in 10 were in inner-city minority neighborhoods. ...more

August 19, 2009

The roof of a stage being built for a Madonna concert in the French port city of Marseille collapsed Thursday, leaving one worker dead and six injured, city officials said. ...more

July 16, 2009

Too much weight around the middle has been shown to make heart disease more likely. But does it also affect the chance of having a stroke among the elderly? Two-thirds of all strokes occur in people older than 65. ...more

April 4, 2009

A downtown law firm is moving to Tampa Heights. Weekley Schulte Valdes plans to move into the former Ticor Title building, 1635 N. Tampa St., by May 25, said Chris Schulte, a partner in the firm that handles civil litigation. ...more

April 1, 2009

LHP J.P. Howell brought back his cleats. 3B Evan Longoria returned with "a lot of good memories" from his brief time with Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. ...more

March 26, 2009

More Internet users are communicating on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter than by e-mail, according to a study by Nielsen Media Research. ...more

March 10, 2009