The Los Angeles City Council has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that would ban the declawing of cats. ...more

November 6, 2009

Antero Niittymaki stopped 40 shots to help the Lightning snap an 11-game winless streak on the road. ...more

November 4, 2009

Lightning D Noah Welch sat out Saturday's game as a healthy scratch. In seven games in a Tampa Bay uniform since being acquired from Florida, Welch has not recorded a point and is a minus-5. ...more

March 22, 2009

Maybe it's curiosity. Or worry. Or both. A Web site launched by the White House last month to allow citizens to keep track of where stimulus dollars are going is getting 3,000 hits per second and already has registered more than 150 million hits altogether. ...more

March 7, 2009

People in Tarpon Springs who want to live in an industrial park moved closer to having their dream realized this week. At their meeting Tuesday night, city commissioners endorsed planning staff's request to permit accessory dwelling units in industrial districts. ...more

February 28, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army is investigating a stunning number of suicides in January - a count that could surpass all combat deaths on America's two warfronts last month. According to figures obtained by The Associated Press, there were 24 suspected suicides in January, compared to only four in January of 2008, six in January of 2007 and 10 in January of 2006. ...more

February 5, 2009

Our future holds nothing but further degradation of our economy and monetary system. For two years I have conveyed urgency pertaining to the state of the economy. Small business owners and the working class are being smashed by the government's inept fiscal policies. Our money is being distributed to financial institutions and rather than it improving our economy, it is being used for buying up smaller banks. ...more

December 6, 2008

Gay couples from across California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage. ...more

October 14, 2008

No one was particularly surprised that the White Sox played well Sunday in beating the Rays. Joe Maddon said he expected it and swept aside any notion that Chicago's 5-3 win in Game 3 of the division series was anything to be concerned about. ...more

October 6, 2008

A massive package of housing legislation that seeks to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners in danger of foreclosure while shoring up confidence in struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cleared a final procedural hurdle in the Senate on Thursday and was headed for passage. ...more

July 11, 2008