Peter Roghaar, a television news manager from West Palm Beach, has been hired as the news director at WTSP, Channel 10. ...more

November 24, 2009

President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster for nearly a dozen counties in the Florida Panhandle, which was struck by severe storms, flooding, tornadoes and straight-line winds in March. ...more

April 22, 2009

The National Weather Service says a tornado touched down in southwestern Kentucky as part of a line of severe weather moving across parts of the Midwest and the South. ...more

April 10, 2009

A buoy weather monitor in the gulf near Pasco could shut down because of budget cuts, possibly before the end of the hurricane season. ...more

March 11, 2009

One person was killed and at least 16 were injured when fierce thunderstorms swept Georgia and Alabama with tornadoes, hail and lightning, downing trees and power lines, authorities said Thursday. ...more

February 19, 2009

If retail is Goliath, then the holiday shopping season was the rock from the sling-shot that brought it to its knees. ...more

January 11, 2009

Tammie Souza, a weather forecaster from Chicago, will become the first female chief meteorologist in the Tampa-St. Petersburg television market. ...more

September 11, 2008

Duke officials were a bit surprised when, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, about an hour before the scheduled kickoff of their game against James Madison, two men parachuted into Wallace Wade Stadium and landed at the 35-yard line with a game ball. ...more

August 31, 2008

The Florida Highway Patrol is stepping up its enforcement efforts for the Labor Day holiday weekend. ...more

August 30, 2008

With the exception of a New York train scheduled to arrive in Tampa on Friday afternoon en route to Miami, Amtrak's Florida operations remained canceled Thursday because of severe weather from Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

August 21, 2008