It's here: Christmas creep. Halloween is barely on the minds of schoolchildren, but retailers across the Bay area have begun putting up Christmas displays and piling decorations and other inventory onto the shelves. In some shops, prices on Halloween items already have been cut, and the ghosts and goblins play second fiddle to Christmas trees and Santa hats. ...more

October 6, 2008

When Deb Freitag applied for a credit card so she could replace her roof, her leaky refrigerator and her old dishwasher, she was offered a $1,000 line of credit, not the $5,000 she needed. ...more

September 27, 2008

Jeff Gordon has eight more races to make it to Victory Lane and avoid his first winless season since his 1993 rookie year. ...more

September 26, 2008

Dig It, No Sweat True Temper's EZ Posthole Digger has a new, patent-pending blade design that's supposed to take some of the muscle out of digging a hole. ...more

September 18, 2008

A landowner and developer wants the option to construct a big box retail store on property along this area's major corridor. ...more

September 17, 2008

At a time when shoppers are forking over more money for everything from groceries to gas, The Home Depot Inc. is planning to put some prices temporarily in reverse. ...more

September 17, 2008

A landowner and developer wants the option to construct a big box retail store on property along this area's major corridor. ...more

September 17, 2008

I have been due to buy new gardening gloves for, oh, at least three months. When are gloves officially worn out? If you guessed, "When they're so filthy, your fingers curl up in horror so you can't put them on," you are wrong. That's pure wimp, gardeners, plain and simple. ...more

September 11, 2008

First-year Plant City coach Jason Strunk can't help but get excited when talking about seniors Denzel Drone and Duran Lowe. It's for good reason. There are a lot of reasons for Strunk to be excited. ...more

September 4, 2008

Fulfilling plans set two years ago when it entered the American Le Mans Series, Acura Motorsports announced that will move to LMP1 in the 2009 American Le Mans Series. De Ferran Motorsports and Patrón Highcroft Racing each will field prototypes in the Series' highest classification starting with the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March. ...more

September 2, 2008