6:45 p.m. BRANDON Things appear to be winding down at the Bloomingdale West Recreation Center, where the trickle of traffic has slowed to an intermittent drip and several poll workers are outside in the parking lot taking a cigarette break and rehashing the day's events. ...more

November 4, 2008

6:20 p.m. BRANDON Carolyn Horn emerges from the polls at Bloomingdale West Recreation Center, scans the quiet parking lot and turns her palms to the dark sky. ...more

November 4, 2008

5:24 p.m.: At Precinct 939, the Apollo Beach Community Church, poll deputy Daniel McCarthy said turnout has been very heavy today, and it's getting busier as the day goes on. He did not know exactly how many people had voted. ...more

November 4, 2008

2 p.m.: At the Campbell Park Recreation Center, 601 14th St. S, in St. Petersburg, where the line was reportedly nearly a block long at one point this morning, Eric Harris just voted for Barack Obama. ...more

November 4, 2008

There's something awfully familiar about the name on a polling place on the south side of Columbus. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:45 a.m.: As voters flow into the Fair Oaks Recreation Center, Precinct 325, all morning, 19-year-old Marquis Davis has a different mission. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:30 a.m.: "Put me down as a first-time voter," shouts Natasha Williams. There are a lot of first-time voters this election, but few are like Williams, who at the ripe young age of 36 is casting the first ballot of her life. ...more

November 4, 2008

11 a.m.: There are no lines of voters going into the Fair Oaks Recreation Center on 34th Street just south of Hillsborough Avenue. There are no lines either at the Pictureman Catering lunch bus parked across the street. ...more

November 4, 2008

Characters ranging from a bite-size bumblebee to a bruising Tampa Bay Buccaneer strutted their stuff Friday night at Howl'oween, a costume contest for dogs at Northdale Recreation Center. Other dog costumes included a princess, pumpkin, chocolate chip cookie, construction worker, caterpillar and skeleton. There also was a haunted trail for children and an adoption fair for dogs. Similar events are set for Nov. 1 at West Park Dog Park, 6402 Occident St. in Tampa, and Mango Dog Park, 11717 Clay Pit Road in Seffner. The West Park costume contest starts at 10 a.m., and the Seffner costume contest, at 4 p.m. ...more

October 25, 2008

A group of South Shore residents willingly signed themselves up for boot camp. ...more

October 22, 2008