Kirk Herbstreit has a message for the University of South Florida's football program: The gig is up. ...more

August 25, 2008

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

Perhaps you enjoyed "Snakes on a Plane" as an entertaining movie. But it's a whole lot less fun when it's snakes in your home's foundation, as this reader discovered. ...more

August 24, 2008

It's easy to forget how good Ryan Newman was his first two years at NASCAR's top level. ...more

August 16, 2008

Customers of Tampa Electric Co. should brace themselves for a hefty increase in their monthly electric bill next year. ...more

July 19, 2008

Ryan Newman left Florida in February as the Daytona 500 champion, his reputation as an elite driver restored and his hopes high for a resurgent season at Penske Racing. ...more

July 12, 2008

Neighborhood activists and builders know that when a new development is planned for a part of town, the project can't have more housing units than what the zoning allows. ...more

June 30, 2008

SEBRING — Last week when Clell Ford and Erin McCarta measured the width, length and depth of a dredge hole at City Pier Beach, where a drowning took place June 7, they realized it was a whole lot bigger than originally estimated. In fact, it's about 10 times bigger, and it's going to take twice as much sand to fill it as can be easily found in Lake Jackson: 10.000 cubic feet, 6,800 cubic yards. So the bottom line, said Ford, who is Highlands County's lakes manager, is that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection won't be able to grant an emergency permit to fill the football-field sized hole a few feet off the beach. ...more

June 18, 2008

Developer Michael DeMarcay never considered putting condominiums on the 7.9 acres that Synergy Properties bought from the city five years ago. ...more

June 18, 2008

If I cut a casserole recipe in half, should I also halve the cooking time? It's a brown rice dish with eight servings. The recipe says to bake for two hours. ...more

June 18, 2008