China's president was signing dozens of trade and investment deals with communist ally Cuba on Tuesday, part of a Latin America trip on which Chinese businessmen have been snapping up all manner of raw materials. ...more

November 19, 2008

9:31 p.m.: The Good Luck Café in Ybor City mimicked a church – just for a moment – as partiers offered a minute of silence in honor of Barack Obama. ...more

November 4, 2008

I am one angry American and hope that this latest scandal with Acorn will prompt other people to be angry also. Forget the ties to Obama, it's too late on this election and if you study the start up and the accountability of this left-leaning organization, you will find that the ties and the lies are incredible. ...more

October 25, 2008

Even as it battles charges of fraudulent voter registration practices in more than a dozen states, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is negotiating to sever all ties with its founder, whose brother embezzled almost $1 million from the group. ...more

October 16, 2008

Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday. ...more

October 8, 2008

The United States is committed to Ukraine's security and freedom, Vice President Dick Cheney pledged Friday, suggesting that Russia was posing a "threat of tyranny, economic blackmail and military invasion" to its neighbor. ...more

September 6, 2008

An Oviedo man with ties to a drug scheme involving two former Pasco County Sheriff's Office employees entered a guilty plea Friday in U.S. District Court. ...more

August 23, 2008

The Suncoast News' recommendation of Pasco County Commission District 3 incumbent Ann Hildebrand, based on her "involvement on numerous public and private boards" is commendable but not a basis for her continuing for a seventh term, opponent Wil Nickerson responses. ...more

August 23, 2008

France's broadcast authority has banned French channels from marketing TV shows to children younger than 3 years old, to shield them from developmental risks it says television viewing poses at that age. ...more

August 21, 2008

DADE CITY For the second time this year, the Greater Dade City Chamber of Commerce will be looking for a new executive director. Tony Lister, who was selected to serve as the chamber's director in April, has resigned. In a resignation e-mail, Lister said he would work full time at the chamber through Aug. 27 and then on a part-time basis as needed. Lister, 37, previously was a teacher at Wesley Chapel High School. In April 2005, Lister was elected unopposed to the San Antonio city commission to fill a seat left open by the retirement of four-term Commissioner Dennis Phillips. In March, the chamber severed its ties with longtime director Phyllis Smith. Smith resigned March 12 but had agreed to stay on while a new director was selected and settled into the position. ...more

August 19, 2008