The Florida Public Service Commission is planning a self-examination amid complaints the agency has been too cozy with the utilities it regulates, the panel's top staffer told lawmakers Wednesday. ...more

November 7, 2009

The United Nations demanded to know Friday why it took an hour for Afghan police and NATO troops to respond to a Taliban attack on a guest house filled with U.N. staff in Kabul. ...more

October 31, 2009

County Commissioner Jeff Stabins on Friday e-mailed Elections Supervisor Annie Williams with suggestions on how to cut more than $43,000 from her $1 million budget. ...more

October 30, 2009

Supervisor of Elections Annie Williams said she is going to ask county commissioners at an upcoming meeting for more money to "fulfill the requirements of this office." ...more

October 30, 2009

In 2006 Hillsborough County commissioners spent $170,000 to terminate a golf range's lease on the Linebaugh Avenue County Northwest Landfill to hasten development of another solid waste transfer station. Today, the golf range remains shuttered, the site is an eyesore, no new transfer station is built and there is no sign of the construction that was to be completed this year. ...more

October 29, 2009

To jumpstart the economy even more, county commissioners Tuesday voted 5-0 to expand its impact fee reduction plan from solely residential to add commercial and industrial construction. ...more

October 28, 2009

Tampa Tribune staffers Michelle Bearden and Len Howell won awards in the Florida Press Club's 2009 Excellence in Journalism contest Saturday night. ...more

October 25, 2009

A CBS News employee has pleaded not guilty to trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that spurred the TV host to acknowledge sexual relationships with female staffers on his show. ...more

October 2, 2009

Re: "City workers, union split on raises" (Metro, Aug. 5): ...more

August 7, 2009

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer have left the state and are spending the holiday weekend in Florida. ...more

July 5, 2009