Blood services merge to save money Florida Blood Services is merging its blood-testing service with a large testing company in a new partnership. Separately, St. Petersburg-based Florida Blood Services and Blood Systems Laboratories, which has offices in Phoenix and the Dallas area, test about 25 percent of the U.S. blood supply, according to a news release. ...more

November 12, 2009

University of Florida researchers received a $4 million federal contract to improve how the military distributes food to troops. ...more

October 23, 2008

The effort to get a control tower at the Hernando County Airport is in the air. ...more

September 9, 2008

A leading cellular phone company declined to charge the government the same expensive fees it charges consumers for canceling their contracts early, acknowledging that "the government will never, never accept such penalty amounts," according to internal corporate e-mail obtained by The Associated Press. ...more

June 12, 2008