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  • Rookie involved in brawl at Buccaneers workouts

    Buccaneers are coming off of an embarrassing season that saw them start with promise but nose dive into a top-15 draft pick. However, the year was an improvement on the season they had in 2011 which means Tampa Bay seems to be on the rise and could fight hard this season. But while the regular season is still months away, ...

  • Founder Institute Not enough Tampa Bay entrepreneurs for boot camp

    Ressi An institute created to support entrepreneurial projects, the Founder Institute, had announced it would be holding a boot camp in the Tampa Bay-area, but has now cancelled it due to a lack of qualified applicants, it said. The Institute was created by Adeo Ressi, a college dropout who has had started eight businesses including a New York guide program bought by AOL in 1997. Ressi came to ...

  • Southgate strikes back Mall making big changes to keep customers

    After a series of headlines about major department store departures, Westfield Group created some buzz with plans to renovate Sarasotas Southgate Mall with an outdoor project including retail, restaurants and nightlife. The one-acre addition will add 46,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to the existing mall building in a space that is currently being used as a parking lot, the ...

  • IMG unveils $15 million dormitory

    The internationally-famed athletics training school, the IMG Academy of Bradenton, opened its new $15 million residence hall on Monday. The academy is a private school for elite athletes from around the world with about 700 students from pre-kindergarten to post-graduate age-levels, the Bradenton Herald said. The state-of-the-art dorm is accessible only by security badges. It has more than ...

  • 10 things you need to know for Tuesday

    C-City Blogger Presenting Chester City's news and views to Delco Times web visitors who want to know more of what's going on in the City besides the stories they read in the ...


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Movie Review

The Negotiator

"The Negotiator" is about men who talk for a living, and director F. Gary Gray could not have picked two better talkers than Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. Their styles and rhythms are completely contradictory, and yet they compliment each other perfectly within the context of this film. Jackson's voice is highly inflected, constantly rising in peaks and valleys, sometimes so shrill in its in ... ...

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  • VSI Tampa Bay FC Set to Battle The Rowdies

    PLANT CITY | VSI Tampa Bay FC will take on the Tampa Bay Rowdies tonight at at Plant City Stadium after Tampa Bay FC edged Orlando City U23s this past Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open ...

  • Deputies say coach head-butted ump

    HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - "It's the big event at the end of the softball season. It's an exciting and fun time," said Debbie Bretz. It was an All-Star game. The best 12-year old softball players in the Miss Florida Softball League -- Lakeland's Christina Girls versus Auburndale. "It was a difficult game with lots of questionable calls," said Bretz. But the ...

  • Local nail salons nailed by the state

    But in a special I-Team investigation, we found Florida's Board of Cosmetology has written up less than 100 salons locally for serious citations with fines ranging from $50 to $500 for unlicensed workers, the most serious ...

  • Boaters rescued after taking on water

    "We noticed a boat on the left side of the vessel taking on water. There were about six, seven people in the water already. And about six on board still. The stern end of the boat was already submerged," Jenkins ...

  • Man gets deputys gun badge in robbery

    As daylight dimmed Saturday evening, investigators say a man lurked in the shadows before snatching a purse away from Regina Hulverson, an off-duty deputy with the Polk County Sheriff's ...

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