Many Florida State players weighing pro options

PASADENA, Calif. — It didn't take long for Florida State to figure out what went wrong in Thursday's 59-20 loss to Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

Tampa homeless charity residents back working at Raymond James

TAMPA — Residents of one of the city's largest homeless programs have resumed working at Raymond James Stadium, but with a major difference — now they're getting paid.

BofA says: "Museum's on us" Jan. 3-4

If you have a credit or debit card from Bank of America or Merrill Lynch, they're now your free ticket to some of the Tampa Bay region's best museums.

This weekend, the Tampa Museum of Art, Florida Holocaust Museum and St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts are three of 150 museums nationwide taking part in Bank of America's Museums on Us program.

With a bank card and a photo ID, you can get into all three of our museums throughout the year with Bank of America picking up the tab.

The first weekend is this weekend, Jan. 3-4. After that, the program continues the first weekend of each month for the rest of the year.

Tampa Museum of Art is in a final weeks of its exhibit "Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color," which closes Jan. 11.

Afterward, you can explore selections from the museum's permanent collection covering the ancient world, artistic portrayals of land and sea and mid-century modern art.

Of course, you can always enjoy "Sky," the hypnotic light installation by Leo Villareal that turns the museum itself into a work of art after the sun sets. Thousands of LEDs just beneath the museum's perforated metal skin create a 45-by-300-foot palette of shifting color.

Two years later, Tampa's RNC host committee shuts down with charitable gifts — and a refund

TAMPA — The last delegate left town nearly 2½ years ago, but the Tampa Bay Host Committee for the 2012 Republican National Convention did not finally, officially, go out of business until this week.

Tom Jones' athletes to watch in 2015

Welcome back to what has became a Tampa Bay Times tradition. This is our ninth annual Two Cents look at sports personalties to watch during the upcoming year. This list won't include household names such as LeBron or Peyton or Tiger. Instead, we look at those who aren't commonly known, those whom we are predicting to have breakout years …

Tom Jones' athletes to watch in 2015

Welcome back to what has became a Tampa Bay Times tradition. This is our ninth annual Two Cents look at sports personalties to watch during the upcoming year. This list won't include household names such as LeBron or Peyton or Tiger. Instead, we look at those who aren't commonly known, those whom we are predicting to have breakout years …

Interesting: Second time's a charm for Lightning's Jon Cooper

OTTAWA — The "most interesting man in hockey" sat at a table in a Green Bay bar, flanked by six women.