Faced with the prospect of rising rates, with electric bills at his jails already in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, Col. Jim Previtera got a bright idea - cut down on energy use by any safe means necessary. ...more

December 16, 2008

Faced with the prospect of rising rates, with electric bills at his jails already in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, Col. Jim Previtera got a bright idea – cut down on energy use by any safe means necessary. ...more

December 15, 2008

Surviving spouses of war veterans have been wrongfully denied up to millions of dollars in government benefits over the past 12 years because of computer glitches that often resulted in money being seized from the elderly survivors' bank accounts. ...more

December 14, 2008

In November, nearly three years after Bob Puccinelli filed his claim for benefits and nine months after his death, the Labor Department determined toxic chemicals at the Largo GE plant likely caused his cancer. His wife would receive a compensation check and be eligible for reimbursement for his medical bills. The family declined to say how much they received. ...more

December 4, 2008

Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress quickly approved legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the holidays in December and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. ...more

November 21, 2008

Make The Call To Save Do you routinely "tune-out" those TV commercials? Well, in these difficult economic times, we are all looking for ways to save money. ...more

November 19, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of Floridians are asking congressional offices for tickets to President-elect Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. ...more

November 17, 2008

Zealous guardians of his words and his likeness, the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is demanding a share of the proceeds from the sudden wave of T-shirts, posters and other merchandise depicting the civil rights leader alongside Barack Obama. ...more

November 14, 2008

Galina Komissarchuk said she and her husband had been arguing with their daughter and son-in-law, when her daughter unexpectedly showed up at her parents' Sarasota house late at night. ...more

November 5, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of pages of what appear to be voter survey documents were found strewn along a section of Interstate 4 early this morning. The documents were discovered along a quarter-mile stretch of the highway near I-275 and contained names, addresses, phone numbers and party affiliations of Hillsborough County voters. Several empty cardboard boxes were found nearby. ...more

November 3, 2008