To Bob Bleakley, the father of one of three friends who did not survive a gulf fishing trip last week, details of a report released Monday about what happened on the boat are inconsequential ...more

March 16, 2009

My son's comment during a recent telephone conversation brought me up short. Both years (he's 43, I'm 67) and miles (he lives in Atlanta, I'm in Florida) separate us, yet we came together in a special moment I will always remember. ...more

February 11, 2009

Former slumlord Steven Green is in such bad physical condition that it would be legally and morally inappropriate for him to go to prison, his lawyer says in court papers. ...more

January 19, 2009

Lane Kiffin still won't say publicly that he's bringing his father to the University of Tennessee. ...more

December 1, 2008

Monte Kiffin's reign as the greatest defensive architect in Bucs history may be drawing to a close. ...more

December 1, 2008

A landlord and his two friends who were accused by a tenant on May 26 of entering his mobile home and beating him, had the charges against them dropped, according to the clerk of courts office on Thursday. ...more

October 26, 2008

Hillsborough School Board Chairwoman Jennifer Faliero only has a little more than a month left at the helm of this panel and given the dysfunction of this board and Faliero's attempts to muzzle opponents, that's a good thing. ...more

October 24, 2008

The telephone conversation between the two businessmen concerned an old friend, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and the subject was money - or at least Stevens' feeling about it. ...more

September 23, 2008

The intersection at 38th Avenue North and 16th Street is expected to remain closed for part of this morning after a semitrailer and car collided, and the car burst into flames, fire officials said. ...more

September 4, 2008

Police arrested an Avon Park man and charged him as a suspect in the attempted murder of his brother. ...more

August 21, 2008