Tampa and residents have wrangled for years over whose responsibility it is to clean up the canals, many of them carved into the coastline by developers in the early-1960s after the West Shore area was annexed into the city from Hillsborough County. ...more

December 13, 2009

Pow! Kablooey! "Looks like it might be over, Batman!" DC Comics has filed notice that it is withdrawing its federal lawsuit brought in July against a Bradenton man who made figurines of characters from the 1960s "Batman" television series. ...more

September 22, 2009

For decades, people who couldn't be identified or who died with no money for their funerals were left for the county to bury. ...more

September 17, 2009

Mike Seeger, who helped revive traditional American folk music, has died at age 75. ...more

August 10, 2009

When was McDonald's founded? Who gave the "Iron Curtain" speech? When was "Psycho" released? Who was Rosa Parks? When did Marilyn Monroe die? When did "Sesame Street" first air? What was the "Manhattan Project?" When were Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinated? ...more

July 6, 2009

The buildings are gone, but there's still work to do at former truck weigh stations on Interstate 4 west of Thonotosassa Road. The remaining work includes removing old scales, laying sod on the site and placing a new sign for the Thonotosassa Road exit, said John McShaffrey, spokesman for the Florida Department of Transportation project. The contractor is expected to wrap it up at the end of July. ...more

June 13, 2009

Where have all the flower power pictures gone? The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts wants to know and has put out a call for unique photos or memorabilia of the 1960s era of flower children, free love and Vietnam War protesting hippies. ...more

June 5, 2009

A man charged with stabbing two other Gainesville men late Tuesday was previously jailed in the late 1960s on a Highlands County manslaughter conviction. ...more

June 4, 2009

Winky Wright hasn't fought since his July 2007 loss to Bernard Hopkins and each time he set his sights on an opponent, an excuse would be made not to fight. ...more

March 24, 2009

America's failure to build and repair the roads and rails it needs, says Robert D. Atkinson, is "emblematic" of the larger mess we're in: "We're a generation that has been irresponsible, and we're passing on a degraded capital asset to our children." ...more

March 21, 2009