TAMPA Call her Judge Catlin. Results changed little today after a recount between Catherine Catlin and incumbent Kevin Carey in the race for circuit judge. Catlin still emerged the winner. ...more

August 30, 2008

In an exceptionally close race, family law attorney Catherine M. Catlin was narrowly defeating sitting Circuit Judge Kevin Carey late Tuesday night. ...more

August 27, 2008

Highlands County's unemployment rate jumped to 7.8 percent in July, according to the Agency For Workforce Innovation. ...more

August 17, 2008

The U.S. Attorney's Office has reached a plea agreement with a St. Petersburg man accused of participating in a complicated mortgage fraud scheme. ...more

August 13, 2008

The U.S. trade deficit has gone on a diet, helped by strong exports of farm products and manufactured goods and by Americans spending less as the economy limps along. ...more

August 13, 2008

Well before Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain rose to the top of their parties, a partisan shift was under way at the local and state level. For more than three years starting in 2005, there has been a reduction in the number of voters who register with the Republican Party and a rise among voters who affiliate with Democrats and, almost as often, with no party at all. ...more

August 5, 2008

Q. Why does Florida give school grades? ...more

August 1, 2008

For many Americans, rising unemployment, higher gas and food prices, and the housing slump have felt like an economic downturn. Now the government's data are catching up. ...more

August 1, 2008

The Tampa area ranked second among 38 large U.S. markets in percentage of jobs lost for the year ending in June, a study by the Department of Labor says. ...more

July 31, 2008

The policy debate within the Federal Reserve is growing sharper. On one side is Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who is opposed to raising interest rates even though consumer prices have gone up 5 percent over the past year. ...more

July 30, 2008