After months of being dragged down by Florida's sinking housing market, Miami-based builder Lennar Corp. on Tuesday walked away from its planned Epperson Ranch project on Curley Road. ...more

December 5, 2007

Miami-based Lennar Corp. on Tuesday walked away from developments planned for Pasco, Hillsborough and five other Florida counties. The troubled builder sold 8,300 homesites to Tampa-based Metro Development Group for an undisclosed sum. ...more

December 4, 2007

Bruce B. Downs Boulevard will be closed for several hours each of the next few days, but the closures will happen only at night and affect fewer commuters. ...more

November 26, 2007

The threat of jail time injected a little motivation into scores of parents who lined up around the courthouse Saturday to get their children vaccinated on the spot or prove they had already had the shots. ...more

November 18, 2007

A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high risk, and had previously rejected another donor "because of his lifestyle," her attorney said. ...more

November 17, 2007

WASHINGTON – Rep. Gus Bilirakis wants information from federal transportation officials about security surrounding the nation's 160,000 miles of aging pipelines that carry gasoline and other hazardous liquids. ...more

November 14, 2007

The halls were empty, the floors sparkled and it was quiet. That won't often be the case after Thursday, when the new emergency room at Tampa General Hospital opens to the public. ...more

November 7, 2007

The expansive ER is part of a new six-story building that cost $190 million. The ER is equipped to handle sick and injured children, stroke victims, trauma sufferers and people contaminated from biological, radiological and chemical terrorist attacks. ...more

November 6, 2007

When she bought her home on West LaSalle Street seven years ago, Kelebie Tiruneh had neighbors to the rear and to the west. ...more

October 28, 2007