For Tampa Bay, this weekend is all about fighting. The Bucs are playing the Falcons in Atlanta, home of the world's most famous dog fighter. Tampa Bay is also fighting to stay atop the NFC South standings, while Coach Jon Gruden is battling to keep his job. ...more

November 18, 2007

Should football help get him there, fine. Whatever it takes to get Joseph Upthegrove into the Navy - specifically into an airplane - works for him. ...more

November 7, 2007

Hair bands, frosted-wash jeans and President Reagan. Ahh, the '80s. Relive the decade up close with the Broadway musical comedy 'The Wedding Singer,' which is at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg for eight shows starting today. ...more

October 30, 2007

Hair bands, frosted-wash jeans and President Reagan. Ahh, the '80s. ...more

October 29, 2007

Once a middle school opens in Citrus Park and a high school opens in Lutz, northwestern Hillsborough will experience a lull in school construction. ...more

October 27, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - A reluctant Pasco County School Board agreed Tuesday to increase the enrollment capacity for Athenian Academy of Pasco, an action that amounted to an after-the-fact contract amendment because the charter school already had enrolled extra students. ...more

October 3, 2007

My life was going along great. I had a full-time career teaching that I loved, plus two part-time ones that involved teaching music and leading worship at church. My kids were well and my husband was doing what he loved. We were all extremely busy and fulfilled. But, I began to feel sick — fatigue and pain that cannot be described. I had felt it a few times in the past when for months I could not get out of bed without help. No doctor could ever figure it out. Starting in eighth grade, I'd be given round after round of antibiotics and after being deathly ill for weeks, would slowly recover. It would always take a long, long time to feel my energetic, enthusiastic self again but I always would. Then, for years I could go on as if nothing had ever happened to me. This time, I reacted the same way by pushing myself more and more, hoping I could just "will" myself out of it. But, the last time it didn't work and after feeling "sick" for a year, I finally had a stroke. ...more

October 2, 2007

Hillsborough County's next high school isn't scheduled to open until 2009, but the school, its boundaries and the traffic it would bring were on the minds of several parents who attended a meeting with the superintendent Monday night. ...more

September 11, 2007

Your coach, Gil Gonzalez, said that you could play volleyball on the high school level, as well as swimming. Why not play both? ...more

September 5, 2007