TAMPA -- Travel guru Tom Parsons shares similar interests with other frequent visitors to the Tampa Bay area – including a quest for bargain airline fares. The founder and chief executive of Texas-based BestFares.com watches Bay area airfare trends "like a hawk" and has found that some holiday season airfares have declined since October, an unusual departure from customary increases as the holidays draw closer. Better yet will be the sales that Parsons expects will abound in January. ...more

December 17, 2008

Lakeshore Mall has teamed up with American Express to offer shoppers a free gas card worth $15 with the purchase of three CBL Malls gift cards by American Express. The mall gift cards can be used at any store at Lakeshore Mall, which accepts the American Express card. ...more

December 14, 2008

The first of thousands of needy families began picking up meals and toys today at Metropolitan Ministries' annual Holiday Center. ...more

December 13, 2008

Hundreds of children in Highlands County will be opening gifts for Christmas thanks to the generosity of people contributing to toy drives. ...more

December 13, 2008

Sickles High School culinary students know their gingerbread. They used to compete in gingerbread-decorating contests, and this fall they built haunted houses from the cake to display around their school. ...more

December 10, 2008

Sickles High School culinary students know their gingerbread. They used to compete in gingerbread-decorating contests, and this fall they built haunted houses from the cake to display around their school. ...more

December 10, 2008

Sickles High School students touched up cookie and graham cracker tiles with icing mortar Wednesday as they worked to complete a gingerbread house taller than the teens. ...more

December 4, 2008

Robert Glenn Temple has pleaded not guilty in the death of his wife, Rosemary Christensen. ...more

December 1, 2008

Motorists should avoid a portion of eastbound Seventh Avenue on Monday. ...more

November 23, 2008

Amtrak ridership continues to increase nationwide and on the Silver Star through Tampa as travelers seek alternatives to paying costly gasoline prices. ...more

November 22, 2008