Wayne Ellington scored 20 points and made key plays late to help the top-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels avoid a major scare and a subpar second half from Tyler Hansbrough to beat Davidson 72-68 Wednesday night. ...more

November 15, 2007

TAMPA - Southwest Airlines on Friday was trying to contact a Largo passenger to apologize after an employee forced him to change out of a sexually suggestive T-shirt or risk getting thrown off the plane. The incident Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, came after Southwest Airlines created a public uproar by telling a woman on a flight in July that her outfit was too revealing for her to fly. Joe Winiecki, 39, a radiographer at Bayfront Medical Center, said he was sitting in the last row of a Columbus-to-Tampa flight when an employee told him he had to change his T-shirt, turn it inside out or get off the plane. ...more

October 5, 2007

A retired auto worker and his two adult children claimed a $314 million Powerball jackpot Monday after waiting two weeks to step forward. ...more

September 11, 2007