With a vote of 449 to 137, Hillsborough's detention deputy chapter of the West Central Florida Police Benevolent Association has dropped the union as its representative for collective bargaining, said the union's executive director, Jim Diamond. ...more

May 23, 2008

If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she would rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year. ...more

May 9, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Bridgeport Center Sold Flagler Development Group of Jacksonville has acquired its first Tampa property, paying $29.5 million to buy the nine-story Bridgeport Center, 5201 W. Kennedy Blvd., from Boston-based AEW Capital Management. Mike Davis, senior director for Cushman & Wakefield, which brokered the deal, said Bridgeport Center is the area's first major office building to trade hands since the credit crunch hit Wall Street in November. Davis said the 170,924-square-foot building in the West Shore business district sold for nearly as much as Cushman & Wakefield estimated it would before the credit troubles. The deal proves buyers remain bullish about commercial properties in the Tampa Bay area, Davis said. ...more

February 2, 2008

TAMPA - University of South Florida football coach Jim Leavitt has been offered a two-year extension through 2014 by Athletic Director Doug Woolard that would increase Leavitt's salary by at least $500,000 a season, The Tampa Tribune has learned. ...more

February 1, 2008

AVON PARK — Given the chance both confidentially and in a public meeting to critique Norman Stephens' performance as president of South Florida Community College, no one on the Board of Trustees had anything negative to say. As part of Stephens' contract, he is subject to annual performance reviews by the board members, which are completed confidentially, as per Florida law. ...more

February 1, 2008

Admitting they underestimated what it would take to transform millions of gallons of estuary water into something people can drink, Tampa Bay Water officials last week cut the ribbon for a second time on North America's largest desalination plant. ...more

January 31, 2008

Hillsborough Circuit Judge Monica Sierra will resign her seat effective Feb. 1. ...more

January 24, 2008

TAMPA Hillsborough Circuit Judge Monica Sierra will resign her seat effective Feb. 1. ...more

January 24, 2008

Sheree Ellis, the sister-in-law of University of South Florida linebacker Ben Moffitt, received a letter of reprimand from Wildwood Elementary principal Dana Williams after she told The Tampa Tribune she wrote papers for Moffitt, Sumter County superintendent Richard Shirley said. ...more

January 24, 2008

The Bucs recognized that the price of keeping a good defensive coordinator had gone up this offseason. More importantly, they were willing to pay that increased price. ...more

January 19, 2008