Las Vegas replaced Chicago as the top domestic destination and New York as the top holiday weekend destination in 2008 in an Orbitz.com report of its hotel and air bookings. ...more

December 31, 2008

Las Vegas replaced Chicago as the top domestic destination and New York as the top holiday weekend destination in 2008 in an Orbitz.com report of its hotel and air bookings. ...more

December 30, 2008

Any doubts about the need for Hillsborough County to smother budding gang activity should have been destroyed by the rampage that shut down Plant City last Friday. ...more

December 9, 2008

Indianapolis, here we come. The Indiana city ranks fifth among the top holiday destinations, internet travel agency CheapTIckets.com reports for bookings made for flights between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1. ...more

October 31, 2008

Rayetta Seward watches all the food shows on TV at her home in Tampa. She likes to cook seafood - she doesn't eat red meat - and she loves to try the new techniques she sees. ...more

September 21, 2008

TAMPA Rayetta Seward watches all the food shows on TV at her home in Tampa. She likes to cook seafood – she doesn't eat red meat – and she loves to try the new techniques she sees. ...more

September 20, 2008

"This so-called news article is so one-sided and vindictive it's absolutely disgusting," decried valued reader grskeeter, who took umbrage at a column suggesting that when her effort to get the county mayor initiative on the ballot faltered recently, local lawyer Mary Ann Stiles might well have enjoyed a well-deserved stiff Boodles martini - or two. ...more

August 17, 2008

Experienced air traffic controllers are retiring faster this year than the government projected and their union says the remaining veterans can no longer safely handle peak volumes in major markets. ...more

January 11, 2008

Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence. ...more

December 29, 2007

Even now, at 81 and with her memory beginning to fade, Gloria Donadello recalls her painful brush with bigotry at an assisted-living center in Sante Fe, N.M. Sitting with those she considered friends, 'people were laughing and making certain kinds of comments, and I told them, 'Please don't do that, because I'm gay.'' ...more

October 13, 2007