Media Enterprises, the company that markets Mighty Putty, is making plans to eventually find a new pitchman to replace Billy Mays, who died June 28. ...more

August 7, 2009

The game "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" is coming to Tampa on June 19 to hold auditions. ...more

June 10, 2009

The stately restrooms in the Tampa Theatre may date back to the 1920s, but they are among 10 vying for the current title of America's best public restroom. Nova 535, an art gallery in St. Pete, is also among the finalists in the contest sponsored by the Cintas Corp. The two local restrooms are up against the restrooms in Radio City Music Hall, the Drake Hotel in Chicago, the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore and the Venetian Resort's Zeffirino Ristorante in Las Vegas and others. ...more

June 3, 2009

Tara Schroeder, community relations director for Tampa Theatre, is flush with excitement over its restroom making a national top 10 list. ...more

June 3, 2009

TAMPA – "I'm hot, hot, hot," says a St. Petersburg woman who got a new hairdo courtesy of "Live with Regis and Kelly." ...more

March 27, 2009

GOLF FANS STARTER KIT DIRECTIONS TO THE COURSE: Take U.S. 19 or Belcher Road to Klosterman Road and watch for signs to the public parking located at the St. Petersburg College Tarpon Springs campus. ...more

March 19, 2009

Sarasota's 24-hour cable television news channel will resume operation at 5 p.m. Thursday, station owner and general manager Linda DesMarais said. SNN, launched by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in 1995, went off the air in January after an attempt to sell the news operation to DesMarais and other investors fell through. A key investor backed out, but DesMarais, her husband, Douglas Barker, and other investors in LDB Media LLC have negotiated the purchase, which should close this week. ...more

February 25, 2009

The telephones were quiet at Tampa stations that cut off analog signals just before midnight Tuesday, according to officials at WEDU, Channel 3; and WTTA, Channel 38; and WCLF, Channel 22. ...more

February 19, 2009

Residents are battling a proposal for a borrow pit between U.S. 92 and Interstate 4, worried the heavy truck traffic could jeopardize students at five local schools. ...more

February 4, 2009

There were nearly 60 commercials during this year's Super Bowl. ...more

February 1, 2009