Dec. 8, 2009 ...more

December 8, 2009

Disney Cruise Line said this week it will equip its new Disney Dream cruise ship with a 765-foot-long high-speed flume ride that will send passengers on inflatable rafts through a clear acrylic tube that will extend beyond the ship's edge. ...more

October 31, 2009

Sachiyo Takada of Japan and Jim Bailey of the United States were the winners of the five-day International Shuffleboard Association's World Singles Tournament. ...more

October 22, 2009

Sachiyo Takada of Japan and Jim Bailey of the United States were the winners of the five-day International Shuffleboard Association's World Singles Tournament. ...more

October 21, 2009

Germany celebrated the anniversary of its reunification Saturday with a performance featuring a pair of giant marionettes suspended by cranes marching through downtown. The spectacle, performed by France's Royale de Luxe theater company, culminated with the two embracing at the Brandenburg Gate - reuniting on the former dividing line between East and West Berlin. ...more

October 4, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Mary Jane Stanley, ex-president of the Pasco Economic Development Council, said this week she is ready to move on with her life after losing her job because of comments she made to a Tampa business magazine. ...more

July 3, 2009

Every time I read a letter about the noise at the bombing range, the noise! I think about a friend of mine, Fran, whose husband was stationed here and was an airplane mechanic during World War II. Fran lived in a travel trailer and Wayne, her brother-in-law, was training to be a pilot. When he would come back in from a training mission, he would buzz her trailer and rattle the dishes; she would yell "Wayne I'm going to hit you in the head!" or something like that. ...more

May 21, 2009

The managers of 1980's pop sensation Roxette says the Swedish band will reunite for a small European tour starting in October. ...more

May 5, 2009

An immigration appeals board has denied an emergency stay of deportation requested by John Demjanjuk, who faces charges in Germany that he served as a Nazi death camp guard. ...more

April 10, 2009

Michal Novotny of the Czech Republic and Maelle Ricker of Canada won snowboardcross events Friday. ...more

March 20, 2009