Florida strawberry growers are still reeling from last month's freeze. Since the Jan. 3 freeze, strawberry production has dropped more than 30 percent compared with last year, costing growers and farmworkers more than $15 million, the Florida Strawberry Growers Association said Friday. Initially, industry officials projected a 10 percent to 15 percent loss. ...more

February 2, 2008

Retirement Not Cushy Regarding "Not Just Baby Boomers' Issue" (Letters, Jan. 27): ...more

February 2, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A few years ago, Phyllis Blankenship was looking for someone to handle the payroll for her site development company, BRW Contracting. ...more

January 29, 2008

Six months ago, Adrian Moran Gomez made an excruciating choice. He said goodbye to his wife and four young children in Honduras. He left them behind to work alongside his father and brothers in Lakeland. ...more

January 17, 2008

SARASOTA - A home health aide wrote herself $52,689 in checks last year out of an elderly couple's bank account, the Saraosta Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 14, 2008

In a past life, the singlewide mobile homes served as classrooms for a Christian school on State Road 54. ...more

January 10, 2008

Tampa City Councilman John Dingfelder wants to kill Mayor Pam Iorio's initiative to make city government more efficient. ...more

December 19, 2007

Goodwill Industries-Suncoast has launched Goodwill Too, an online store offering bargain hunters a new way to buy new and nearly new items. ...more

December 13, 2007

Getting in was the easy part. ...more

December 1, 2007

Gov. Charlie Crist and two other top state officials suspended withdrawals from a state-operated investment pool Thursday, abruptly halting a run by local governments spooked over the downgrade of its mortgage-related holdings. ...more

November 30, 2007