BOYS BASKETBALL With six key players returning, the fast-paced Eagles are hoping to rebound from last season's disappointing finish, but will Central emerge as a new county challenger? ...more

November 24, 2008

After years of steady growth, Progress Energy Florida said today it is beginning to lose customers. ...more

October 31, 2008

It had been two weeks since Jamie Moyer gave up six runs in an NLCS loss to the Dodgers. It had been more than three weeks since he lasted just four innings in a loss to the Brewers. ...more

October 26, 2008

The parents of a local first-grader want to know why they weren't contacted when their child received an injury on the school's playground. ...more

September 5, 2008

People are better off if they take responsibility for their lives, finances and futures, without the expectation of a government handout. That's what President Bush espoused four years ago when he called for the creation of an "Ownership Society" that gives people more choice, more control and more ownership of government benefits such as education and Social Security. ...more

September 4, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. An emphatic winner. The Rays clinched their first plus-.500 record in their 11-year history Friday night with an exclamation mark, showing off pitching and hitting in lambasting the Baltimore Orioles 14-3 at Tropicana Field. ...more

August 30, 2008

Tens of thousands of students in a southwest Florida school district who used an online Princeton Review program to study for the state's annual assessment test inadvertently had their names, birth dates and test scores published on the Web. ...more

August 20, 2008

Thousands of students in Sarasota accidentally had their names, birth dates, and test scores published on a Princeton Review Web site. ...more

August 19, 2008

In a recent column about listing agreements, you wrote that you never advise sellers to sign a listing agreement longer than 90 days. This poses a problem for me. ...more

August 7, 2008

LARGO - A fire ripped through the roof of the Belleair Oaks Condominiums building this morning, slightly injuring one resident and displacing dozens. ...more

June 18, 2008