Yahoo averted a showdown with rabble-rousing investor Carl Icahn on Monday by giving him three seats on its board of directors in a truce that still leaves the door open for a possible sale to Microsoft. ...more

July 22, 2008

The attorney representing Christina Garcia, the mother of one of the teens accused in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay, has filed a notice to sue Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd for making defamatory remarks. ...more

July 21, 2008

The future looked bright for Timothy L. Brooks in June when he threw the only touchdown pass for the Lakewood Ranch High School varsity football team in its spring warm-up game. ...more

July 15, 2008

The American people support more human aid than any other entity on the planet. We show up for every catastrophe worldwide, and we provide protection for many smaller countries at the cost of many American lives and limbs. Why is it that we have developed our assets and technology to such a level that we are ready and willing to do so much for the world? Certainly not by allowing anybody to push us around at will. ...more

July 10, 2008

Attorneys for the five teens accused of beating one of their peers in Lakeland and videotaping with the intent to post online were at a court hearing today in Bartow. ...more

July 8, 2008

Brittni Hardcastle, one of the teenage girls accused in the videotaped beating of Mulberry teenager Victoria Lindsay, can now attend church. ...more

June 27, 2008

TAMPA - Brittni Hardcastle, one of the teenage girls accused in the videotaped beating of Mulberry teenager Victoria Lindsay, has a hearing today to request changes to the terms of her pretrial release. ...more

June 26, 2008

Hedge Fund Traders Buying The Presidency The fact is oil is abundant worldwide. For example, there is shale-oil in the U.S. with an estimated 2.8 trillion to 3.3 trillion barrels of recoverable oil. That equals two-thirds of the world's total reserve of crude oil. ...more

June 26, 2008

LAKELAND - One of the girls charged in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay told an assistant state attorney that she did not realize the scope of the incident until she was released from a juvenile detention center and watched the local news at home. ...more

June 25, 2008

Two officials named in a $225 million racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit against NASCAR have been placed on administrative leave for violating company policy, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

June 14, 2008