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Former motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel, who was remembered after his death Friday as Montana's native son who kept ties to his hometown of Butte, will be eulogized at a funeral in his hometown. ...more
December 2, 2007
City commissioners interviewed two candidates Thursday afternoon for the city manager position, pressing both to make sure they would be willing to live with the pay being offered. ...more
November 30, 2007
Video released by Canadian authorities of the last moments of a Polish immigrant's life shows police using a Taser stun gun on him after confronting him at the Vancouver airport. ...more
November 16, 2007
This concerns the decision of not guilty by the jury in the Lee Anderson case. Emotions about that verdict have not been as high since the O.J. Simpson trial and the same jury decision of not guilty. Emotions were greatly enlarged by the media, with its repeated showing of the guards taking Anderson to the ground. The problem with making judgment on the basis of emotion and not on the evidence (especially if the jury does so) is that we then lose the basis of equality under the law. ...more
October 23, 2007
TAMPA - Southwest Airlines on Friday was trying to contact a Largo passenger to apologize after an employee forced him to change out of a sexually suggestive T-shirt or risk getting thrown off the plane. The incident Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, came after Southwest Airlines created a public uproar by telling a woman on a flight in July that her outfit was too revealing for her to fly. Joe Winiecki, 39, a radiographer at Bayfront Medical Center, said he was sitting in the last row of a Columbus-to-Tampa flight when an employee told him he had to change his T-shirt, turn it inside out or get off the plane. ...more
October 5, 2007
A buyer of two condominium units in the stalled Trump Tower Tampa may soon get its deposits back - all because the developer failed to respond to its lawsuit. ...more
September 28, 2007
Zack Grossi appeared to be praying. On the floor of the Florida Orthopaedic Institute's Carrollwood office, Grossi rested his outstretched body on his forearms and elbows, with his hands clasped together in front. ...more
September 12, 2007
Susan Churuti is out as Pinellas county attorney. County Administrator Steve Spratt has no room for error after controversial land deal that prompted Churuti's ouster. ...more
September 10, 2007
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