The St. Pertersburg Times reported that Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee stood before City Council members holding a report from the D...

Fifth-generation member of the Hernandez-Gonzmart family, which founded the Columbia Restaurant in 1905. Through the Ybor City Chamber, Gon...

My colleague Georgia thinks it wasn’t our fault, but I find it just a little conspicuous that the power went out in all of Southern Florida...

In the Florida House race , Democrat Tony Sasso defeated Republican Sean Campbell in a seat in parts of Brevard and Orange Counties that ha...

A prestigious group of ocean experts today gave an A- to Florida and other states because of their efforts to preserve coastal ecologies th...

As a young girl growing up in the South THE YEARLING was a must read in school. Its author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, won the Pulitizer pri...

Florida’s rich and varied landscape and wildlife offer a wide array of opportunities for residents and tourists. While many Floridians enjo...

Last month, HRC partenered with Florida Red & Blue to hold a series of training sessions that mobilized volunteers to inform voters of...

"We need to call a time out," says Fernandez, who stresses that an America stretched beyond its geopolitical, military and intell...

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor is co-hosting a fundraiser next week for Kevin Beckner, a Democrat who's challenging Republican Brian Blair for ...

On February 27, the Orlando, Tampa and Miami offices of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center...

How does marriage between my lesbian sister and her partner of 11 years affect my circumstances? Or anyone else's?....... here

Walt Disney World yesterday declared that it is ending support of the annual Florida Classic game between Florida A&M University and Bet...

Three of the eight were the nuke stations at Turkey Point. Not trying to get the tinfoil too tight here but power plants of whatever source...

With Florida's legislative session set to begin next week, House Speaker Marco Rubio offered a decidedly pessimistic outlook, especiall...

Took a 3-week cross-country ride locked in a storage container, was reunited on Tuesday with his Florida owner. The 2-year-old Meatloaf app...

A team of biologists, including Patrick Bohlen of MacArthur Agro Ecology Research Center, set control burns in February as part of a three-...

The Photography Of Ron Dubin

Best Scandal -- Local Venue TPM is pleased to announce the winners of the First Annual Golden Dukes! The Golden Dukes are given in recognit...

Will Smith has played his share of famous men in film, but is he ready to play a (possible) president of the United States? Senator Barack ...

The ghost orchid is among the world's rarest flowers, the star of the popular book "The Orchid Thief" and the movie "Ada...

A group of 35 to 40 Bartowans attended the forum at the Crawford Agriculture Center to explore the feasibility of renovating the deteriorat...

Raul Martinez U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a Republican admired by many Cuban exiles, has been reelected handily to the 21st Congressiona...

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, is dressed as a Somali elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in no...

A Florida panhandle lawmaker wants a "Confederate Heritage" license plate to join the 109 specialty tags already available in Flo...

If you believe in Democracy… it’s almost ironic to me that in coming from a state like Florida on the Democratic side -- where every vote m...

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Filmmaking is perhaps the most expensive art form in which to partake. No matter how talented a filmmaker may be, unless he/she has the prop...

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean accused Republican presidential front-runner John McCain of trying to skirt campaign finance laws Sun...

Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar on Sunday by taking the best supporting actor award for his chilling portrait ...

It was recently decided that the base water rate in Broward County, Florida will be increased by $15.00. Part of the reason for this increa...

Thousands of state workers -- including lawmakers, judges and top managers -- are receiving retirement benefits in addition to full-time pa...

Via..... The Sight Unseen

Florida has 25 representatives: 16 Republicans and 9 Democrats. Filing deadline is May 2, primary is Aug 26. Of the 22 districts with more ...

Mr. Hovind, also known as Dr. Dino , is a young-earth creationist and runs Creation Science Evangelism, in Pensacola, Florida. He claims to...

Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando are building ties with lawmakers through hundreds of thousands of dollars in free tickets, food, dr...

With alternately tearful goodbyes and barely contained impatience, more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals Saturday...

With a canal running by one side of his house, a large plot of brush and foliage on the other, and a front yard as big as a tree-filled foo...

The 27th annual run across the scenic Seven Mile Bridge in Marathon is set for Saturday, April 19, 2008, but interested runners need to act...

The shooting death of a gay teenage boy who was dressed in women's clothing is being investigated as a possible hate crime, while detec...

This image provided by Marine Major Brian Dennis, of St. Pete Beach, Fl., shows Dennis holding his adopted dog, Nubs, near the Iraq-Jordan ...

About 10 years ago, on assignment for a country music magazine, I accompanied the Bellamy Brothers on a bumpy stretch of the Florida Cracke...

It's a rare natural treasure, but a Central Florida spring could be sold for millions to a water bottling company if no one intervenes....

Virginia Key Beach Park celebrated the grand opening of its historic beach and park after nine years of being closed. In 1945 Virginia Key ...

USF Tampa Library faculty and staff speak about diversity.

Teens from the Bay Area will join hundreds of thousands of others nationwide to fight world hunger by taking part in a 30 hour famine start...

The Florida Black Bear Scenic Byway received its official state Scenic Byway designation on February 20, 2008 by the Florida Scenic Highway...

The Associated Press named photojournalism student Andrew Stanfill’s “Don’t Tase Me, Bro!” Florida Photo of the Year. It ran in The Indepen...

Pelosi is an embarrassment to the Democratic Party. She is deaf, dumb and blind. She obviously never read the Constitution, doesn't und...

No one knew what to make of it when a small propeller airplane stenciled with the words "Iraqi Air Force" made an emergency landi...

I have no idea whether the affair story is true or not, and I don't care. What I do care about is John McCain -- and this has been well...

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