It's a long-held tradition in eastern Hillsborough County for members of the Florida Strawberry Growers Association to compete in the Florida Strawberry Festival's best flat contests. ...more

March 18, 2009

Tampa Port Authority commissioners on Thursday postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 20, 2009

Tampa Port Authority commissioners today postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 19, 2009

Among the thousands of people coming to Tampa for the Super Bowl, some count as serious VIPs: Players, team owners, celebrities. ...more

January 12, 2009

Among the thousands of people coming to Tampa for the Super Bowl, some count as serious VIPs: Players, team owners, celebrities. ...more

January 9, 2009

It seems inconceivable: Somali pirates in speedboats foil warships from the world's most powerful navies to prey on shipping lanes crucial to the oil supply. ...more

November 19, 2008

The Transportation Security Administration has begun to screen all cargo carried in the bellies of narrow-body aircraft, including flights at Tampa International Airport and St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, a TSA spokesman said today. ...more

November 11, 2008

Delivery company DHL, hit by heavy losses and fierce competition, is significantly reducing its air and ground operations in the United States and cutting 9,500 American jobs, leaving rivals like FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service to fight over the customers it will stop serving. ...more

November 11, 2008

It probably wasn't mice, but it could have been a rat who stole a semi-tractor trailer with 18 pallets of Wisconsin cheese, parked on U.S. 27 in front of Florida Hospital in Lake Placid. ...more

July 28, 2008

Florida has one less citrus packing house. Four years after moving his citrus-packing business from Wesley Chapel, Jim Guedry has shut down the commercial side of Citrus Country Groves. Guedry owned the fruit-packing business for 17 years. ...more

July 17, 2008