The Tampa Sports Authority plans to begin conducting pat-down searches again at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Oct. 12 home game against the Carolina Panthers. ...more

September 27, 2008

Such is the power of a simple, declarative: "No!" ...more

September 20, 2008

The installation of new high-tech security devices, which can provide images of passengers beneath their clothing, has been delayed at Tampa International Airport, a federal official said Thursday. ...more

September 5, 2008

The use of X-ray security devices at Tampa International Airport that would produce photo-quality images of passengers seemingly nude has been delayed by installation problems, a Transportation Security Administration official said this morning. ...more

September 4, 2008

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist made national news last year by convincing the Clemency Board to automatically restore voting rights for most freed felons. ...more

September 2, 2008

Sally Ferrell bounded from the truck and grabbed a poster-board sign that read: "War is not the Answer." ...more

August 30, 2008

A federal judge has struck down the heart of a law that would have banned state universities from organizing academic research trips to Cuba, calling it unconstitutional. ...more

August 30, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist made it easier for felons to vote Wednesday, but advocates questioned why he waited so long. ...more

August 29, 2008

When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children. ...more

August 24, 2008

Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year - and blacks, American Indians and youngsters with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, a study by a human rights group found. ...more

August 20, 2008