After his wife was found dead inside their Bellair home in November and a murder warrant was issued for his arrest, Ryan Cataneo headed west, authorities say. Cataneo, 40, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Casino in Las Vegas, said Pinellas County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Jim Bordner. ...more

January 6, 2009

The Tampa/St. Petersburg area ranks 14th among domestic destinations for 2009 travel bookings, a survey of 547 Travel Leaders travel agencies reports. ...more

January 6, 2009

The Tampa/St. Petersburg area ranks 14th among domestic destinations for 2009 travel bookings, a survey of 547 Travel Leaders travel agencies reports. ...more

January 5, 2009

Tampa Bay area home prices continued to fall in October, posting a 19.8 percent decline from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released Tuesday. ...more

December 31, 2008

TAMPA -- Bay area home prices continued to fall in October, posting a 19.8 percent decline from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released this morning. The index, a closely watched indicator of the health of the nation's housing market, tracks 20 metro cities and showed prices dropped 18 percent from last year -- a record decline. ...more

December 30, 2008

Pending U.S. home sales fell slightly in October, despite a spate of bad economic news and turmoil in the stock markets, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. ...more

December 10, 2008

LAS VEGAS - A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as many as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced as Judge Jackie Glass rattled off the punishment. Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions. ...more

December 5, 2008

Troy Percival will undergo surgery on his back in an attempt to resolve a problem that dogged him throughout much of the 2008 season. ...more

December 2, 2008

Home sales prices across the country declined at record rates in September, when compared with the year-ago period. The Tampa Bay area was no exception. ...more

November 26, 2008

Home sales prices declined at record rates across the country in September. In the Tampa Bay area, prices continued to fall but hovered around the same rate of decline as the previous month. Bay area sales prices fell 18.5 percent in September compared with a year ago, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index released this morning. ...more

November 25, 2008