WASHINGTON — Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming.

A week ago today the Lightning were 10 points out of a playoff spot and general manager Steve Yzerman was in seller mode as the trade deadline loomed.

It took 15 months for the Tampa Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau to devise a new brand in 2007, resulting in the renaming of the Hillsborough County visitors group to "Tampa Bay & Company."

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His hands and feet shackled and wearing a black and white inmate uniform, Eric Smallridge told Lake Placid High School students, "This is something I will live with forever."

Pasco County commissioners are looking at another grim budget year because of the county's weak economy and home values that continue to fall.

Barring a hurricane, students and employees at Pasco County schools will get a full week of vacation at Thanksgiving this fall instead of the normal three days.

The man who served for the last decade as chief of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute is leaving his post to lead Moffitt's genetic research lab and its new Personalized Medicine Institute.

Primed for a fight, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum traded fiery accusations about health care, spending earmarks and federal bailouts Wednesday night in the 20th and possibly final debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Charges of parliamentary trickery and partisan grandstanding enlivened a largely meaningless debate about county commissioners' pay at the tail end of Wednesday's Hillsborough County Commission meeting.

Lee Roy Selmon generally shunned attention. It was true when he emerged as the Buccaneers' cornerstone player. It was evident when he became the franchise's first member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And it continued when Selmon joined the University of South Florida's athletic staff, becoming the catalyst for the school's burgeoning football program.

LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan drew praise Wednesday from a judge who said the actress was one court hearing away from putting a long-running drunken driving case behind her.

Tuesday was set aside for the Tampa Bay Rays pitchers and catchers. Morning physicals, a meeting with manager Joe Maddon on Field 1, then on to the first workout of the spring.

911 recording captures dramatic moments before Glen Rich was shot to death while trying to get his car from a tow truck company.

TALLAHASSEE — George LeMieux says Connie Mack IV, his main competition for the GOP Senate nomination, is "the Charlie Sheen" of Florida politics.