Cigar enthusiasts and history buffs will unite Saturday in Ybor City for the 11th annual Cigar Heritage Festival, where master cigar makers Wallace and Margarita Reyes will try to break the world record for longest cigar. ...more

November 16, 2009

That's right partner. You can say you were there for that last roundup, the day they drove the cattle through the streets of Tampa on the Old Big Guava Trail. ...more

November 13, 2009

In the trek from Buffalo, N.Y, to the Florida Keys, Tampa is the next stop for a solar powered car that only uses the gentle rays of the sun to keep going. ...more

May 12, 2009

He was born Ben Garcia, but he's better known as Ben Hvar - or Otok Ben-Hvar, or "Mr. Inspiration" or, on special occasions, "His Majesty King Kuku." Whoever or whatever he is, it is certain where Hvar is, and if all goes according to plan, where he will be until April 30 - in a modified phone booth behind Market on Main, 6040 Main St., where he will attempt to establish a new world's record. ...more

March 20, 2009

Over many years the issue of rail transit in Tampa has been studied, argued, abandoned, resurrected, and refined, but never have voters been asked if they want to tax themselves to begin building a useful rail system. ...more

March 6, 2009

Unlike many conventional team sports, swimming is one that can be participated in competitively well after athletes surpass their physical "prime." ...more

December 27, 2008

Veterans, community members and children get into formation with soldiers at Godman Airfield at Fort Knox, Ky., last week in an effort to set a world record. More than 2,200 people joined to help make the world's largest human formation of a yellow ribbon. The Army says the previous record of 1,358 was set May 14 at U.S. Army Garrison-Ansbach in Germany. ...more

November 10, 2008

Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square. ...more

October 8, 2008

Asafa Powell failed over two attempts to break Usain Bolt's world record in the 100 meters at the Rieti Grand Prix on Sunday. ...more

September 9, 2008

Sue Moucha hasn't let cerebral palsy stop her from becoming a champion swimmer. ...more

August 30, 2008