White House officials spent hours last week preparing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for what they anticipate will be a concerted Republican effort to portray her as an "activist" jurist and will counter that her 17 years on the bench are a display of judicial restraint. ...more

July 12, 2009

Your editorial on the "40% for doing nothing" was right on target. ...more

July 8, 2009

Just in time for the holiday weekend, millions of baby floats are being recalled because the leg straps can tear, dumping a child into the water. ...more

July 3, 2009

As police investigate Michael Jackson's sudden death, questions swirl around the King of Pop's cardiologist and his actions in Jackson's final days. ...more

June 28, 2009

Hillsborough County fire inspectors are looking into a fire late Saturday night that destroyed a vacant house in Gibsonton. ...more

June 21, 2009

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the target of comedians' jokes since his arrest and impeachment, is getting in on the laughs with Chicago's famed The Second City. ...more

June 11, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives have released the name of a couple involved in a May 31 murder-suicide. ...more

June 5, 2009

Quet Shaw has received one last honor for her exploits as the leader of the Plant City High flag football team, and it's a pretty big honor. Recently Shaw was named the best quarterback in the state, as the signal-caller on flagmag.com's all-Florida squads were announced in late May. ...more

June 4, 2009

An estranged husband shot and killed his wife Sunday, then drove around the corner to a department store parking lot, where he killed himself, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

June 1, 2009

Camille Dupree, Amanda Mirabella and Ashley Johnson are winners of the recent Bayshore Christian School Fundraising Decathlon. The teens defeated 16 other competitive teams, boys and girls, from both middle school and high school. ...more

May 13, 2009