WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession. ...more

March 6, 2009

Police are looking for two people who broke into a Palmetto boarding home early this morning and shot dead a teenager who was in his bedroom. ...more

February 28, 2009

It had to be done. For the sake of cutting costs and keeping with the future of fire and rescue response, eliminating the communications center in Spring Hill and reaching an interlocal agreement with the county was the best course of action, according to the majority of those on the fire board. ...more

February 27, 2009

Though the final quarter of 2008 brought the sound of fewer hammers, a low not heard of in at least 23 years, they haven't fallen silent. ...more

February 20, 2009

Schools that want to put up cell phone towers would have to hold two public hearings under land development code changes recommended Wednesday by the Hillsborough County Commission. ...more

February 19, 2009

Two St. Petersburg police officers shot and killed a 40-year-old woman who appeared about to stab another woman with a large carving fork Tuesday night. ...more

February 11, 2009

Rays reliever Chad Bradford had elbow surgery last week and will be sidelined three to four months, the team announced today. ...more

February 9, 2009

The city council on Thursday voted to lower fees for tree pruning and removal, less than four months after approving an eightfold increase. ...more

February 6, 2009

A veteran Hillsborough County Republican Party official resigned Thursday after forwarding a racially tinged e-mail to a handful of friends that was leaked to others in the party and became public. ...more

February 6, 2009

Carol Carter, a veteran official of the Hillsborough County Republican Party, is resigning her post as result of a flap over a seemingly racist email joke she forwarded to friends. Carter is the third prominent local Republican in four months to be stung by controversy over emails with racial overtones. ...more

February 5, 2009