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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears a man under siege. But while Democrats are licking their chops and many Republicans are despairing at the state of the Romney campaign just seven weeks from Election Day, more dispassionate observers suggest that the race is still very close.

The Broookings Institute has ranked Tampa 30th out of 100 U.S. metro areas in how much it's economy has improved in the last quarter.A year ago the…

This election year, everybody's getting in on the action. Along with the usual posters, T-shirts and lapel pins, other presidential election tie-ins are popping up across the land. Here are a few of the most unusual political marketing ploys that caught our eye.

A Tampa mental-health counselor who refused to turn over her patient records to the state has won the right to keep them confidential.Joanna Theiss Mulder…

Tampa City Council will vote next Thursday on whether to put a temporary moratorium on granting business licenses to internet “sweepstakes” cafes that…

A Univision interviewer asked President Obama if it wasn't true that he had broken his campaign pledge to introduce a comprehensive immigration reform package early in his presidency. That was a place Obama wasn't willing to go.

Twenty-two-year-old Simone Fratus is sitting in a computer lab at the Art Institute of Tampa, doing homework with a friend."Right now, I have on…

President Obama’s fundraiser was a dinner at the home of Lisa DeBartolo and Don Miggs on Golf View Street in Palma Ceia.A crowd of that appeared to be…

Florida has gained almost 78,000 jobs since last August. This marks the 25th consecutive month of steady gains according to the Florida Department of…

A tape showing presidential candidate Mitt Romney deriding Americans who don't pay federal income tax was released on Monday, causing an uproar. The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes thinks Mitt Romney's point is broadly true, even if deeply pessimistic.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was in Sarasota Thursday, laying out his ideas for improving the economy. Romney’s five-point plan included an education plank. Romney praised former Gov. Jeb Bush and

President Obama and Mitt Romney seem to have switched places in recent days. The incumbent president is promising to change Washington from the outside. Meanwhile, Romney, who made his fortune turning businesses around, says he wants to work within the existing political system.

The Highwaymen were a group of African-American artists in the '60s and '70s who sold idyllic paintings by the roadside of Florida's Route 1. Back then, they nearly saturated the market with their pictures, but today their work is sought after by the likes of Steven Spielberg and Michelle Obama.

Seventeen-year-old Jimmy Braat has three passions in life: playing music, photography, and being a caregiver to his grandma. "It's all I'm good at!" he…

Author Dennis Lehane's latest novel is a faced-paced tale of organized crime and betrayal, set during Prohibition. Live by Night follows Joe Coughlin from his days as a small-time Boston hood to success as the rum-running boss of the South.

Until recently, USF Saint Petersburg has been the definition of a “commuter school.” With no place for students to live on campus, many would come to…

Despite a hiring freeze and no pay raises for a number of years, an online jobs website has named the University of South Florida's Tampa campus as the…

One of the state's oldest voter education groups came out today against every one of the Constitutional amendments that will be on Florida ballots in…

The number of uninsured would soar and the health-care safety net would unravel under Republican candidate Mitt Romney's health proposals, according to a…

The unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans is 10.9 percent -- much higher than the national average. And that has inspired a group of retired local…

Putting injured veterans back into sports they played prior to their injury or getting them to try new sports is Jamie Kaplan’s goal. He is a recreational…

If you're interested in the future of education in Florida and our nation, there's just one place you want to be on Oct. 10 -- next to your radio and/or…

Dr. Kiran Patel of Tampa, who donated $12 million to University of South Florida on Tuesday, can well afford the gift. His fast-growing Medicare Advantage…

Earlier this year, photographer Carlton Ward Jr. and three colleagues embarked on a trip to bring attention to the need to connect Florida's remaining…

In this year's presidential election, more than 1 out of every 10 eligible voters is Hispanic, and Hispanic political clout is growing. But while Spanish-language ad spending by the campaigns is eight times what was spent in 2008, that spending has been focused mainly on just seven media markets.