Want to catch a free ride to the Rays game Saturday? The Baseball Looper Trolley will pick you up in downtown St. Petersburg and take you to the stadium.

With a winning baseball team and country musician Trace Adkins playing a concert after the game, the city is bracing for an influx of fans.&nbsp…

Bruce Gradkowski is an easy guy to like. He’s affable and charming, the kind of guy who gets along with everyone — even us beat writers.

As a aftermath, the human in you hates to see a guy like that get dumped. But let’s face the indisputable fact here: that was inevitable. Ironically, it might …

The Bucs, looking for players capable of providing an offensive spark, have re-signed tight end Jerramy Stevens and parted ways with quarterback Bruce Gradkowski.

The move to re-sign Stevens was not a total surprise, but the release of Gradkowski is the team’s first effort to whittle down its reg…

Among the hundreds of characters who construct up the perpetually dysfunctional Florida Democratic Party, no one in the past 30 years has so consistently and effectively been at the forefront of coups against party leaders than Jon Ausman. Volatile, profane and some say brilliant, Ausman, 54, has a…

MADEIRA BEACH — The Tom Stuart Causeway has re-opened that afternoon after a head-on collision slowed traffic.

One driver was cited for four violations. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said he was driving in the westbound lane when he veered into oncoming traffic. No one was seriously injured…

Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, is calling on Democrats to seat all the delegates. Read his letter to Howard Dean.Original post by Alex Leary

The Dolphins will announce the signing of offensive guard Shawn Murphy in the coming hour or so. No financial terms are yet available.

Murphy, the team’s foruth-round draft pick, is expected to compete for a starting job that year along with veteran Steve McKinney and darkhorse second-year player I…

Memo to Florida Democrats from Karen Thurman. But before you get into that, realize that Thurman is revising history a bit in the first paragraph, suggesting Democrats were steamrolled in moving up the primary.

"More than a year ago, Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature and Governor dec…

Pinellas Superintendent Clayton Wilcox e-mailed that short goodbye to all district employees that :

“Thank you for the honor of serving the children and young humans of Pinellas County with you. I am proud of our efforts and grateful to each of you for your support of “our” kids and their familie…

TAMPA — She had hoped to get more than $22-million from the city of Tampa for payment on a Civil War-era debt.

Instead, Joan Kennedy Biddle and her family have agreed to pay the city $4,000 in attorney’s fees and hand by to the city the original copy of the 147-year-old promissory note. Biddle tod…

A new letter from the Clinton campaign to the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee lays out the points the campaign will assemble in tomorrow’s assembly about the delegates from Florida and Michigan. The Clinton mantra: Seat ALL the delegates!

The five-page letter begins by knocking down questions about …