The owners of Sangria's Spanish Tapas Bar and Restaurant are exploring a new restaurant in the neighborhood. ...more

November 10, 2007

Victoria Lim spent her last day as News Channel 8's Senior Consumer Reporter Thursday. ...more

November 8, 2007

And now come the Pumpkin Police to save us from heinous second-graders who have the audacity to, gasp! carve a pumpkin. Good grief Charlie Brown, the Great Pumpkin would roll over in his grave. This would have had amusing results if the assignment had been given to teenagers, who supposedly know better. Oops, silly me. But these are second- graders who, hopefully, still believe in Santa Claus. They are very impressionable at that age, and should still be tugging on Mommy's apron strings, except that mommy traded in her apron for a business suit, the real crux of the problem. So we already have tree huggers and bunny huggers, now we are raising a generation of veggie huggers. The Good Lord gave us dominion over the beasts of the land, the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea. I assume He left out plant matter on purpose, since it really can't run away, and He gave us too much credit for being able to figure that out on our own. It is already politically incorrect to hunt and fish, so now I suppose tilling a garden will become some sort of ghastly social stigma. ...more

November 3, 2007

It was late in August, a time before the Colorado Rockies began their magical run and a time when fans still were debating whether their manager was worth his latest contract extension. ...more

October 13, 2007

Starbucks opens its first Plant City coffee shop at 5 this morning and it shouldn't be hard to find for motorists passing through town on Interstate 4. ...more

October 11, 2007

PLANT CITY Starbucks opens its first Plant City coffee shop at 5 a.m. Thursday and it shouldn't be hard to find for motorists passing through town on Interstate 4. ...more

October 10, 2007

Starting a successful company is never easy. In fact, entrepreneurship may be one of the most mentally, spiritually and financially exhausting challenges in business, especially in the cutthroat world of technology. And the Tampa Bay area has never been known as a market bursting at its seams with billion-dollar tech success stories. ...more

October 2, 2007

They strike him at the strangest times - little culture shocks stemming from nearly a quarter century of isolation from the outside world. ...more

September 18, 2007

Apple Inc. slashed the price of the iPhone by $200 Wednesday - a rare move for the company that typically discounts only older products. It also updated its iPod media players, introducing a model that incorporates a touch-screen and other iPhone features. ...more

September 6, 2007