HSN profit rises on slower sales St. Petersburg-based retailer HSN saw split results between its TV and catalog business in the company's most recent financial quarter. Amid a difficult retail environment, HSN sales decreased less than 1 percent to $467 million, and sales in the company's Cornerstone catalog business fell 13 percent to $174.2 million in the third quarter of 2009, compared with $201.3 million in the previous year. The company saw growth in unit shipments and sales online. ...more

November 13, 2009

Several weeks into a diet experiment, things took a turn. Researcher David Diamond wanted to see how much weight rats would gain on a typical American high-fat, high-sugar diet compared with rats on a low-carb, Atkins-type diet. ...more

November 2, 2009

A mute elderly woman known only as "Jane Doe" since she was found wandering in a New Jersey mall 15 years ago has finally been identified. ...more

March 23, 2009

Put down that cheeseburger and listen up: If food has become what sex was a generation ago - the intimidatingly intelligent Mary Eberstadt says it has - then a cheeseburger is akin to adultery, or worse. ...more

February 28, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) - The allure of the value meal has long seduced penny-pinchers craving a cheeseburger. Now, as the dismal economy slurps up profits, Starbucks Corp. is hoping to find some sales salvation in its own value meal variety. ...more

February 11, 2009

The allure of the value meal has long seduced penny-pinchers craving a cheeseburger. Now, as the dismal economy slurps up profits, Starbucks Corp. is hoping to find some sales salvation in its own value meal variety. ...more

February 3, 2009

A Vero Beach man faces a domestic violence charge after authorities said he assaulted his girlfriend with a cheeseburger. An Indian River County Sheriff's Office arrest report said a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend got into an argument as they sat in a car in front of their home. ...more

December 4, 2008

If you've been to the bookstore lately, or clicked around online, you know the shelves are crammed with cookbooks and food-related texts. The holiday buying season is prime time for publishing new titles. ...more

November 30, 2008

Nine exceptional student education students from Avon Park Middle School walked or wheeled Friday to The Depot Restaurant for their first "community experience" of the school year. ...more

November 18, 2008

Arriving in Pinellas County to prepare for Friday's first presidential debate, Barack Obama stopped at a Clearwater pub to chat up lunchgoers, then held a news conference to announce principles he said must be included in the nation's Wall Street bailout. ...more

September 24, 2008