NEW TAMPA – A community effort to add civic activist Carol Poland's name to the New Tampa Regional Library is growing louder. Friends and supporters of the Hunter's Green resident, including former Tampa Police Chief Bennie Holder, filled the Jeri Zelinzki Community Room at the New Tampa Regional Library to speak on her behalf Nov. 6. ...more

November 7, 2008

The 2008 presidential election was all about change, but, for the most part, local television news in the Tampa area stuck to old-school ways Tuesday night. Every time the major broadcast networks cut back to the local stations, it was like going from a Ferrari to a Gremlin. ...more

November 6, 2008

Senior night is always a bittersweet moment in any athlete's playing career, and the emotions ran high as the Lake Placid volleyball team honored six of their seniors before taking the court against cross-county rival Avon Park on Thursday. ...more

October 25, 2008

When The Dark Romantics' Eric Collins sings the line, "Love and pain, they are one and the same," on the first track of new album "Heartbreaker," it seems as though the band couldn't have chosen a better moniker. ...more

September 19, 2008

Policy Was Misstated Regarding "If Not An 'Ownership Society,' Does Obama Want A Nanny State?" (Our Opinion, Sept. 4): ...more

September 10, 2008

Distinct personalities in real and imagined worlds collided Friday at the fourth annual "Second Life" convention. ...more

September 6, 2008

Second Lifers, many of whom know each other only by their avatar personalities, are converging in Tampa today for educational seminars designed to teach those caught up on the computer craze how to better navigate the boxy Second Life 3-D landscape. The virtual online community's annual convention begins this morning at the Tampa Marriott Waterside hotel with breakfast at 8 and a welcoming ceremony at 10. ...more

September 5, 2008

With their elbows locked, smiles iridescent and extreme image makeover complete, the U.S. men's basketball players took their final step into Olympic lore in the most appropriate way - together. ...more

August 25, 2008

The moniker no longer fits him. Earnest Graham would like to hold on to it anyway. ...more

August 17, 2008

Entering the ring Friday night at the A La Carte Pavilion, Clearwater welterweight Keith Thurman was announced as "K.O." by ring announcer Mark Beiro. ...more

August 16, 2008