Rose Circle hosted a combined circles meeting on Feb. 4 at the Tampa Garden Club on Bayshore Boulevard. Patti Schaefer, from Annie's Garden Shack in Lutz, discussed container gardening with herbs. The circles then split for separate business meetings. ...more

February 11, 2009

Trish Bergelt's first Gasparilla brought tears to her eyes. ...more

February 8, 2009

The pilot of a small aircraft who reported the plane's landing gear would not deploy landed safely at Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands shortly after 5 p.m., a Tampa Fire Rescue spokesperson reported. ...more

February 7, 2009

Football fans in Pennsylvania and Arizona don't think of just football and visions of the Super Bowl trophy when they think of Tampa. ...more

January 31, 2009

In last Sunday's column Addie Lee of Bratt requested a recipe for oatmeal bars. She says her husband's mother and grandmother made them for him as a youngster in Ontario, Canada, during the '50s and '60s. Every time she's tried to re-create the mixture, her kitchen begins to resemble a war zone. ...more

January 25, 2009

Readers ask for recipes and other readers supply them. ...more

January 19, 2009

A grieving husband finds comfort in returning to the work he and his deceased wife used to do to help the hungry. ...more

January 16, 2009

A fire at a single-story home on Davis Islands caused about $10,000 damage this morning, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. ...more

January 15, 2009

Tom Bryan was making plans to celebrate the Friendship TrailBridge's 10th anniversary when he learned in early November that the popular recreational trail was closing because of structural problems. ...more

December 24, 2008

A Lutz man who led authorities on a high-speed boat chase in January pleaded guilty to federal charges of ramming a Coast Guard inflatable boat with a stolen 28-foot powerboat. ...more

December 23, 2008