Dear President Bush, They say you can't always believe what you read in the papers. So, when I read that Marion Jones has applied to you for a pardon or commutation of her federal conviction for making false statements to investigators, I couldn't believe it. She lied to federal agents. She took steroids. She made false statements in a bank fraud investigation - not necessarily in that order. She admitted it. And now she apparently wants to be let off. ...more

July 24, 2008

The new leader at USA Track and Field sent a letter to President Bush asking him to deny Marion Jones' request to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam. ...more

July 22, 2008

Thinking out loud until it started to hurt... After a recent 'record-setting performance by American sprinter Tyson Gay, Christian Web site One News Now, which uses a computer filter to change potentially offensive words, posted a story on the success of speedy champion Tyson Homosexual. Personally, I'm just glad Gay wasn't a biathlete. ...more

July 19, 2008

Florida's tomato growers enter each growing season knowing crops could be ruined by hurricanes, hail, pests or heavy rain. ...more

July 18, 2008

Florida's tomato growers enter each growing season knowing crops could be ruined by hurricanes, hail, pests or heavy rain. ...more

July 16, 2008

Federal investigators have determined that mechanical troubles combined with pilot error to cause the fiery crash two years ago of a twin-propeller aircraft that slammed into a Davis Islands home, killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot. ...more

July 2, 2008

Federal investigators plan to descend on tomato farms, warehouses and packing sheds in Florida and Mexico today to search for the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has now sickened 552 people in 32 states and the District of Columbia. ...more

June 21, 2008

Former Hillsborough County State Attorney Bill James, whose career as a crusader against corruption included the federal indictment of three Hillsborough County commissioners, has died at 75. ...more

June 18, 2008

Grigori and Galina Komissarchuk didn't want their daughter and son-in-law to move in to their house in 2000, and argued with them for six years trying to get them to leave. ...more

June 18, 2008

TAMPA – Grigori and Galina Komissarchuk didn't want their daughter and son-in-law to move in to their house in 2000, and argued with them for six years, trying to get them to leave. ...more

June 17, 2008