The Krewe of the South Shore Marauders will host the second Pirate Idol Tampa Bay - Entertaining for Charity event at 5 p.m. Feb. 23 at Dallas Bull, 3322 U.S. 301 N., Tampa. ...more

February 6, 2008

What's the cheapest way to call my family overseas on my cell phone? There are a couple of options here, including a new one that should be intriguing for frequent overseas callers. ...more

January 13, 2008

About 6 a.m. Thursday, phone service to about 300 homes and some businesses in Thonotosassa was disrupted when vandals cut and removed a section of Verizon cable near the corner of Knights-Griffin Road and Ed Dennison Road, according to Verizon spokesman Bob Elek. ...more

December 28, 2007

If you're like me, you recently received another sack of phone books at your door. I am so sick and tired of these bloody things I could scream! Within the past six months 13-plus pounds of near-useless paper has been dumped at my doorstep. We didn't ask for the phone books. We did not put out an urgent call to Verizon or AT&T to please bring us some more dead trees or child booster seats. There they were anyway waiting annoyingly on our front stoop. ...more

December 20, 2007

which I have to pay for! Is there any way to prevent this? ...more

December 16, 2007

Children at Twin Lakes Elementary should find out Dec. 11 who will become their new principal. The Hillsborough County School Board is scheduled to vote at its meeting on the principal appointment to replace Holly Saia. Saia transferred to Shaw Elementary last month for the retiring Gloria Kolka. Saia had served as Twin Lakes' principal since 2005. The school board meeting starts at 3 p.m. Dec. 11 at 901 E. Kennedy Boulevard. It will also be broadcast live on the Internet at www.sdhc.k12.fl.us and shown on the Education Channel, which is channel 614 on Bright House Networks and channel 32 on Verizon. ...more

December 10, 2007

Verizon will soon be using solar power to run the equipment that makes telecommunications possible in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

November 8, 2007

Most of the online mapping sites can't find my home address. Is there a company I can contact to fix this? ...more

October 22, 2007

TAMPA - Ever tune into a great TV show midstream and wished you could rewind it to see it from the beginning? ...more

October 11, 2007

Verizon Wireless Florida's Clothesline Project arrived at Saint Leo University on Wednesday as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. ...more

October 4, 2007