When you are living in a mobile home and working odd jobs to get through college, a couple of thousand dollars can mean a lot. And for 22-year-old Austin Richmond, winning the local-prize purse at Saturday's Publix Super Markets Gasparilla Distance Classic could help him achieve his dream of one day running the marathon at the Olympics. ...more

February 10, 2008

There are football scholarships, and then there are football scholarships. We are referring to the one just signed by King punter Daniel Zychlinski. He put pen to paper for Stanford University on Wednesday morning and if you looked closely at that paper, you will notice two very important lines: the percentage of the scholarhship the school is giving Zychlinski and how much one year at that school costs. ...more

February 6, 2008

Former Berkeley Prep and Stanford University standout Rolf Steier says he is considering competing for the local prize money up for grabs in the Gasparilla Distance Classic 15-kilometer run. ...more

January 10, 2008

Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the past year and prompting warnings of worse to come. ...more

December 24, 2007

David "Chip" Reese, whose plans for a Stanford University business degree were sidetracked by his success at high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, died in his sleep. ...more

December 6, 2007

SEBRING — As students use computers more and more at school, 12-year-old Matthew Juve is using a computer for all his classes, but they are online courses and he no longer attends school this year. Matthew was already taking algebra II online through Stanford University and three other online classes through Florida Virtual School, so it didn't make sense for him to go to Sebring Middle School for one class, his mother, Diane Juve, said. ...more

December 3, 2007

While loosening your belt after Thanksgiving dinner, you may want to clip a pedometer to it. The reason: Wearing a step counter leads to weight loss and lower blood pressure, according to new research released this week. The researchers found that a pedometer is an unusually good motivator to get people to walk more. ...more

November 23, 2007

When scientists first decoded the human genome in 2000, they were quick to portray it as proof of humankind's remarkable similarity. The DNA of any two people, they emphasized, is at least 99 percent identical. ...more

November 11, 2007

There are only two more nights of NBC's "Green Week." Are you ready to hug a tree yet? ...more

November 8, 2007

SRI International, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based research giant that recently opened an outpost in the Tampa Bay area, could lend its guidance and expertise to scientists developing promising medicines at Florida universities. ...more

October 24, 2007