The Newsome High girls soccer team and Ft. Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons matched up eerily well on defense in Saturday's final of the Elite division of the Sarasota Sailor Holiday Classic. ...more

December 22, 2008

WESTCHASE -- Adults in northwestern Hillsborough County now have a place closer to home to take classes. The Life Enrichment Center is partnering with Aston Gardens, a senior living community in Westchase, to offer a range of new classes. ...more

December 12, 2008

Louisiana businessman Mike Flaherty said he was surprised to learn that the Dunedin-based financial company Landmark Leasing LLC was going out of business after he sent a check for more than $3,500 for an equipment lease on what he thought was a done deal. He also was surprised Wednesday when he got the money back. ...more

December 11, 2008

A customer says he was promised a refund by the now defunct Landmark Leasing LLC in Dunedin, which is under investigation by the Florida attorney general's office. He says Landmark didn't deliver on that promise. ...more

December 9, 2008

A financial company in Dunedin under investigation by the Florida attorney general is closing its office. ...more

December 5, 2008

A financial company in Dunedin under investigation by the Florida attorney general is closing its office. ...more

December 3, 2008

The Florida attorney general has opened an investigation into allegations of unfair and deceptive trade practices involving Landmark Leasing, the subject of a news report Monday. ...more

November 26, 2008

Anyone voting for Obama should think hard about the implications that will result from an election of this man to president. There is obviously going to be a super majority of Democrats in the House and in the Senate after this election. This will mean there is nothing to stop the Democrats from passing any and all bills and laws of their choice. The Republicans will not be able to even filibuster from the floor to delay passage of these items because of their minority status. It has been tossed around that there are 49-million people without health insurance, which is a tragedy, but can you imagine what it will do to the health care system? It is sometimes difficult to get an appointment or a bed in the hospital now. There has been no mention of building the hospitals and educating all the medical people conducive to accommodating that large a number of new patients. It would be overwhelming to the existing system and take years to accomplish a feat of that magnitude (by either party). Obama has stated that he wants to provide this health care now, not 10 years down the road. ...more

October 24, 2008

The seven men were sitting at the round table in the back at the Valencia Garden restaurant. The one you would know for sure is former Congressman Sam Gibbons, but the rest are all longtime Tampa residents. The subject was money, or more precisely, how it's disappearing from everyone's savings. ...more

October 11, 2008

Over the past several months: •A South Florida mother inadvertently leaves her 4-year-old son in her SUV for more than two hours while having her nails done on what was supposed to be her wedding day. Her son dies. ...more

August 17, 2008