Internet reports of a shortage of chicken wings, the most savory of Super Bowl snacks, have been greatly exaggerated, restaurateurs and poultry officials say. ...more

January 30, 2009

Internet reports of a shortage of Chicken wings – the most savory of Super Bowl snacks – have been greatly exaggerated, say restaurateurs and poultry officials. ...more

January 29, 2009

No changes in Tampa Port Authority staffing or operations are expected in 2009 despite an 8.4 percent decline in cargo tonnage last year and a gloomy outlook for an economic recovery this year, port director Richard Wainio said this morning. ...more

January 20, 2009

Promoters of the Lingerie Bowl say the event is still set to go on, despite reports that some recently fired players were upset over a pay dispute and were balking at playing the game at a nudist resort. ...more

January 19, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 17, 2009

A worldwide decline in seaport container cargo shipments, which mostly comprise consumer goods, should moderate by 2010 and possibly rebound by 2011, panelists said at an international gathering of seaport officials Thursday in Tampa. ...more

January 16, 2009

A worldwide decline in seaport container cargo shipments, which mostly comprise consumer goods, should moderate by 2010 and possibly rebound by 2011, panelists said at an international gathering of seaport officials in Tampa today. ...more

January 15, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-size lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. ...more

January 15, 2009

David Earley is a family man. He lives on an acre-sized lot with his wife, two young daughters, a dog and a horse. But one thing about Earley, 42, sets him apart from other dads in the neighborhood. He's a fugitive hiding in plain sight, wanted by the law since 2007 on felony charges of failure to pay child support. A list of Florida's deadbeat parents, administered by the state Department of Revenue, is the best measure of the growing problem that Earley represents: The list of cases has increased more than 100,000 during the past five years, to 792,000. ...more

January 14, 2009

Tampa International Airport traffic declined by more than 875,000 passengers to 18.3 million in 2008 compared with record numbers of about 19.1 million in 2007. ...more

January 14, 2009