Costco Wholesale Corp. said Wednesday that it is making plans to start accepting food stamps at its warehouse clubs nationwide. It has tested them at stores in New York state. ...more

October 29, 2009

Sharks know they're not dead yet in playoff hunt. ...more

October 22, 2009

How a community treats its abandoned pets is a measure of its public efficiency and its private heart. Hillsborough County has reason to be proud of both. ...more

December 6, 2008

They gathered in a room in the corridors of the Nature Coast Technical High School gym, a team waiting to learn its fate by a fax instead of a scoreboard. ...more

November 20, 2008

FOOTBALL Nature Coast players, coaches and officials react to FHSAA's decision to remove the Sharks from playoff competition. ...more

November 19, 2008

Gentlemen, start your offers. Whatever bastion of hope, whatever thin strand of thread and whatever aspirations have been discussed, grim reality might finally have set in Tuesday night. ...more

January 30, 2008

After waking up Thanksgiving morning and getting my 26-pound turkey stuffed and in the oven, I took the rare opportunity to sit down with my lovely new bride, Michele, and peruse that morning's Tampa Tribune over a cup of strong coffee. As Michele enthusiastically plunged into the pile of post-Thanksgiving sales ads, I made my way through the sports, national and local news and eventually to the obituaries, which I check with regularity to make sure I'm not listed. ...more

December 3, 2007

'The Panic of 1907' by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr; John Wiley & Sons Inc.; 258 pages ($29.95) ...more

October 21, 2007