A panther living the country club life? That's what several residents of Lakewood Ranch believe.
The Federal Reserve on Sunday approved Wells Fargo's $11.7 billion acquisition of Wachovia, removing the deal's last major regulatory hur...
NEW YORK - Investors agonizing over whether the stock market is bottoming out or about to extend its precipitous decline face more uncert...
Angela McClenahan lined up four unblinking baby dolls on a Target toy shelf, waved her hand across four motion-sensing faces and listened...
ST. LOUIS - Ten years ago, most of Dr. Brian Nussenbaum's oral cancer patients were men over 60 who used tobacco and drank heavily.
Can Sen. John McCain and David Letterman bury the hatchet?
PARIS - British and European leaders took unprecedented steps here late Sunday to try to halt a galloping financial crisis in its tracks,...
BOSTON - An animal welfare official says a wayward manatee that was rescued from cold Cape Cod waters died on the way home to Florida.
SEATTLE - Negotiations have begun to end a five-week strike by machinists for the Boeing Co.
MIAMI - Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Tropical Storm Nana has formed in the eastern Atlantic, but predict it ...
By NATALIE NEYSA ALUND MANATEE - A 2-year-old boy died Sunday afternoon after being hit by a truck outside his home.
By Natalie Neysa Alund A 3-year-old boy was killed this afternoon after he was struck by a truck on city streets.
Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, incl...
The Boston Red Sox brushed aside the 100-win Angels in four games, dismissing their best-in-baseball regular season as last month's news.
A bus driver with a string of motor vehicle offenses and a history of substance abuse was arrested on suspicion of driving under the infl...
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she's an open book regarding an abuse-of-power investigation. Apparently her staf...
Jurors who found O.J. Simpson guilty in his armed robbery trial say secret audio tapes and surveillance video swayed them more than witne...
European governments struggled to find a coordinated response to the crisis sweeping financial markets Monday, as countries one after the...
The original Carvel shop prepared to serve its last cones Sunday, more than seven decades after becoming the birthplace of an ice cream e...
The idea of paying a single, simple fare to fly on an airliner is becoming as quaint as stewardesses in short skirts.
China pledged to improve food safety after authorities detained six more people in the country's contaminated milk scandal as the governm...
Bobby Smith couldn't have picked a worse time to run out of gas.
Jenny Dobbs' art history class at Braden River High School is a place for free thinkers.
Evan Longoria is nothing if not confident. So Tampa Bay's rookie third baseman knew the sudden slump he had slipped into during the posts...
Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia had the first two-home run game of his career Saturday during Game 2 of the ALCS.
The world seems like a perfect place after a dominating football performance. The smiles were wide around the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' locke...
Saturday became Sunday and Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon turned to bench coach Dave Martinez and said, "Dave, it's 12 o'clock."
Tampa Bay Rays merchandise is a hot item this October.
Florida Ventures LLC, a Sarasota firm, is heading to Europe on Friday to continue a series of meetings with European investors in attempt...
The debate season that has chewed up its moderators comes to a close Wednesday when John McCain and Barack Obama meet for the third time,...
Lisa Marie Presley is a mom again. A publicist says the 40-year-old singer gave birth Tuesday to twin girls, whose names were not release...
Damnation was the dominant theme Saturday in a new Vienna State Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust. But redemption triumphed in t...
An adorable talking dog remained just the sort of escapist movie hero audiences wanted after a week of awful economic news.
As journalists go, Augustine Early is an unrepentant reprobate, a bottom-feeder who ferociously chases celebrity, particularly if it mean...
Angelina Jolie isn't giving away who she's backing in the U.S. presidential election, but she does have good things to say about Barack O...
