It is no secret to anyone that the motorsports industry is feeling the same economic struggles as auto corporations today. Just by looking at all the various types of auto racing series in existence around the world, you can see the fate of most companies are either on the verge of non-existence or on the path toward permanence. ...more

December 28, 2008

Late-night talk shows have had a lot of fun at the expense of the Tampa Bay Rays. ...more

October 24, 2008

Sometime between the salad and the entree at Ruth's Chris Steak House in Tampa, a small box appeared on the table. ...more

September 15, 2008

Men and women who want to marry their same-sex partners are traveling cross-country to tie the knot, drawn to California after that state's Supreme Court lifted a ban on such nuptials in May. ...more

September 15, 2008

Nick Barnett was devastated when he heard about the traffic deaths of two close friends this month. He left work to spend a few hours with their families. Then he went to the tattoo parlor. Barnett, an 18-year-old Bloomingdale High graduate, became part of a growing number of young people who are memorializing lost friends and family in permanent body ink. Teens and young adults mostly are the ones doing this, tattoo artists say. ...more

August 28, 2008

You turn around one day and they're gone. In a city like Tampa where permanence is sometimes measured in seasons instead of years, change is a part of our lives. The landmarks that we gauge the timelines of our lives by - old schools, favorite restaurants, family stores - don't seem to have the value they used to. ...more

June 13, 2008

LUTZ - As a demolition crew's backhoe ripped down the walls of a mobile home where a young mother and her two children were found slain, her son's classmates honored them this morning by planting a memorial garden. ...more

May 28, 2008