Although the calendar says it's only Week 6 of the grueling NFL schedule, Sunday's home matchup against the Panthers looms as a critical game for the Bucs and their chances of repeating as NFC South champions. ...more

October 8, 2008

There currently is an e-mail circulating among seniors on the Internet. ...more

September 15, 2008

Dear Readers, In June, Mr. HandyPerson responded to a Florida reader having trouble finding a house painter who did not expect a 50 percent advance before signing a contract. He opined that perhaps this was not terribly unusual because the painters might need to purchase materials, and that she should make calls to city hall and the Better Business Bureau to ask about local standards, and to check about prospective painters. ...more

August 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - At least for the time being, Land O' Lakes is Titletown. In amateur men's soccer, that is. ...more

August 27, 2008

Amber Williams suffered nightmares for years. In them, she would try to run away from her father - through the house, up the stairs, under the bed. ...more

August 15, 2008

A man who collected and traded sexually explicit photographs of infants, and repeatedly raped his three daughters when they were infants and children, was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. ...more

August 14, 2008

What Hillsborough County Jail Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones did last January was an outrage. While searching a partially paralyzed man during booking, she dumped Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair, as casually as if he was a bag of dirty laundry. The Sheriff's Office quickly and rightly charged her with abusing the disabled, a third-degree felony that could bring up to a five-year sentence. ...more

July 8, 2008

The 61-year-old woman had just finished grocery shopping at Winn-Dixie on Saturday evening and was stopped at a red light near the store when someone opened her front passenger door, according to a sheriff's office report. ...more

July 8, 2008

Square dancing is one of the most popular types of dance in the country, largely because almost anyone can do it, if they put their feet to it. ...more

July 2, 2008

Arielle Serrano, the Plant High School student hit by a car two years ago in front of the school, died Saturday. She was 17. ...more

June 23, 2008