PARIS - As world financial markets wobble and bonuses shrink, the macho male is going out of fashion. Paris designers showing their spring-summer collections on Saturday banished the tie and introduced a gentler take on masculinity, leaving the Gordon Gekko look in the dust. ...more

June 29, 2008

OZONA - This coastal village plans to show its patriotic colors with an Independence Day fireworks display and its first annual July Fourth Golf Cart Parade. Lisa Anstett, co-chairwoman of the Ozona Village Improvement Society Independence Day Extravaganza, said at a recent OVIS meeting everyone decided it would be great fun to have a patriotic golf cart parade on the Fourth of July. ...more

June 28, 2008

Mexico City's Human Rights Commission cited evidence Sunday that police might have partly blocked the exit at a nightclub where a stampede killed 12 people, including a 13-year-old girl. ...more

June 23, 2008

DUNEDIN -- Factors such as tight budgets, dwindling sponsorships from struggling businesses and rising fireworks prices are prompting some Florida cities to forgo traditional Fourth of July fireworks displays this year. That list includes cities such as Tarpon Springs and Plant City. ...more

May 31, 2008

Travis Williams-Martell had it pretty good for a 7-year-old. His dad taught him to fish and hunt. They spent as much time together in the woods or on the water as Joseph Martell's schedule allowed. On March 22, the boy posed for a picture in front of his dad's Ranger flats boat, proudly displaying a keeper redfish the child had just caught on "ultra-lite" tackle. ...more

May 11, 2008

TAMPA - Saturday's final Gasparilla fling through Ybor City that drew about 40,000 revelers included 27 who police arrested for various offences, mostly misdemeanors. ...more

February 17, 2008

Tiny Kosovo - poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western - braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people followed by years of limbo under U.N. rule. ...more

February 17, 2008

You're standing on Nuccio Parkway after dark, the throb of songs by OutKast, the B-52s and Justin Timberlake pulsing up the street. Over throngs of outstretched hands sail strands of plastic beads, simple loops of rainbow colors that under streetlights glint like gold. ...more

February 17, 2008

TAMPA - You're standing on Nuccio Parkway after dark, the throb of songs by OutKast, the B-52s and Justin Timberlake pulsing up the street. Over throngs of outstretched hands sail strands of plastic beads, simple loops of rainbow colors that under streetlights glint like gold. ...more

February 16, 2008

While Gasparilla revelers were donning pirate apparel and imbibing early morning beverages, David DeLong was making laps around them. ...more

February 7, 2008