SEMINOLE HEIGHTS - Nebraska Avenue is closed in both directions as firefighters battle a three-alarm fire at the oldest hardware store in Tampa. ...more

June 8, 2008

Taoist Master Dan Jia picks through the wreckage of the 1,500-year-old Erwang Temple, piling books in a stack and dusting off altarpieces. ...more

June 1, 2008

T he "pop-up" ad - that mainstay of Internet advertising - is starting to pop up in a new place: your television screen. And home shopping channel HSN is one of the first companies to start testing the advertising technique as a way to capture viewers directly from other channels on the lineup. ...more

February 20, 2008

The Yankees are counting on Philip Hughes as a mainstay of their starting rotation after an injury-plagued 2007 season that saw the 21-year-old right-hander hampered by hamstring and ankle problems. ...more

February 19, 2008

Warren Sapp told the Oakland Raiders on Thursday that he was retiring, ending the career of one of the best defensive tackles to play in the NFL. ...more

January 4, 2008

He was a mainstay in local politics in the 1960s and '70s, a key member of the city's volunteer firefighter squad and a gardener who wowed friends with giant squash and tomato plants. ...more

January 1, 2008

Shane O'Brien's NHL education with the Lightning is progressing. There have been some good-to-great moments for the 24-year-old defenseman from Port Hope, Ontario. ...more

December 17, 2007

The Port of Tampa will continue its commitment to diversified operations in 2008, including an expansion of container cargo services, as it wraps up a successful year in 2007, port Director Richard Wainio said Wednesday in his annual state of the port address. ...more

December 12, 2007

Armwood's Sean Callahan thinks he spends roughly two to three hours a day, minus what he does with film. Plant's Robert Weiner says maybe 20-25 hours per week, and that's in-season time. Out of season? Think upward of 40 hours per week. ...more

November 11, 2007

To communicate with her teammates and coaches during her first season at Florida State, Mami Yamaguchi often wrote notes because of her broken English. Two years later, the junior midfielder who teammates call 'Mams' has no trouble making her points. ...more

October 17, 2007