Miami and St. Petersburg will select new mayors Tuesday with the candidates disagreeing over economic plans for their respective cities and the construction of stadiums for baseball's Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays. ...more

November 1, 2009

Don McRae, one of the most formidable black leaders in St. Petersburg history – and sometimes one of its most controversial – died Sunday after a long illness. He was 78. ...more

March 16, 2009

Alan Landers, the handsome model who posed for Winston cigarette ads and later sued the tobacco industry over his health claims, has died while undergoing treatment for throat cancer. He was 68. ...more

March 3, 2009

A Tampa Bay area lawmaker has filed legislation that could stall or even stop Florida from sealing its historic deal with U.S. Sugar to purchase the Everglades for restoration. ...more

February 18, 2009

A Tampa-Bay lawmaker has filed legislation that could stall or even stop Florida from sealing its historic deal with U.S. Sugar to purchase the Everglades for restoration. ...more

February 17, 2009

Tony Stewart got his first major setback as a team owner Saturday when a crash in practice took out both of the cars Stewart-Haas Racing planned to race in the Daytona 500. ...more

February 14, 2009

Most people have watched as controversy churns in Sun 'n Lake of Sebring concerning the way the improvement district elects board members. This paper has weighed in on the matter as well. In a few days there will be an opportunity to change that, and we hope those who can cast a ballot in the board of supervisors election support Dick Miller for Seat 1. ...more

January 18, 2009

It is not known whether there will even be a Spring Hill Fire Rescue Board beyond this year. ...more

October 26, 2008

Cuba has ordered jailed punk rocker Gorki Aguila, an outspoken critic of former President Fidel Castro and the communist government, to stand trial Friday for "social dangerousness," a charge that could carry four years in prison. ...more

August 28, 2008

CLEARWATER - A Church of Scientology critic was found dead over the weekend in what police are calling a suicide. The body of Shawn Lonsdale, 39, was found in his home at 510 N. Lincoln Ave. about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, said Elizabeth Daly-Watts, Clearwater public safety spokeswoman. ...more

February 19, 2008