A former University of Tampa student accused of trying to sneak a large knife onto a commercial flight has pleaded guilty to entering an airport area in violation of security requirements. ...more

October 13, 2009

Tampa Tribune reporter Lindsay Peterson has received a second-place award for narrative feature writing from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. ...more

October 4, 2009

Tampa International Airport ranked third nationwide in the Conde Nast Traveler 2009 Business Travel Awards released in the October CondeNast Traveler magazine. ...more

September 29, 2009

The next "American Idols Live! Tour" will play Tampa on July 28 at the St. Pete Times Forum, according to the Fox network. ...more

April 16, 2009

Tampa is showing the nation's steepest decrease in hotel prices in April with a 31 percent decline, Hotwire.com reported in its monthly Hotel Rate Report. ...more

April 15, 2009

Ten years and a day after a jury awarded Mayola Williams nearly $80 million in punitive damages in her fight with a cigarette maker, the Supreme Court said today she can collect her share. ...more

March 31, 2009

Greg Hayworth, 44, graduated from Syracuse University and made a good living in his home state, California, from real estate and mortgage finance. Then that business crashed, and early last year the bank foreclosed on the house his family was renting, forcing their eviction. ...more

March 14, 2009

People who feed birds have been getting their pockets pecked. Birdseed prices have been fluctuating for months, and the cost of a premium seed imported from India is at an unprecedented high. All this has made the estimated one in six Americans who feed wild birds rethink their backyard buffets. ...more

March 11, 2009

The winners of the Gasparilla 5K are Nike employees who often turn up to represent the shoe and apparel giant at races and expos. ...more

February 28, 2009

The weather outside was frightful from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore., on Monday, with last-minute holiday shoppers shivering and stranded travelers hoping for the best as Christmas rapidly approached. ...more

December 23, 2008