Even as it battles charges of fraudulent voter registration practices in more than a dozen states, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is negotiating to sever all ties with its founder, whose brother embezzled almost $1 million from the group. ...more

October 16, 2008

Brandon senior standout wrestler Eric Grajales has verbally committed to Michigan. ...more

October 14, 2008

TAMPA - A 36-year-old Tampa man has been charged with first-degree murder of a child. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Robert Bradwell was arrested today after he killed his girlfriend's 21/2-year-old daughter. ...more

October 6, 2008

If the Internet is the information superhighway, one of its roads led straight to a Tampa guitarist. ...more

October 5, 2008

Jennifer Anne Kogler wanted to be a writer since she was old enough to etch her first words. ...more

September 24, 2008

Hank Steinbrenner was all set to attend the final regular-season game at Yankee Stadium. Then he decided it was more important to watch it someplace else — with his dad, on TV. ...more

September 23, 2008

The only American killed in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was an 18-year-old high school senior who had gone overseas for an arranged marriage to a Yemeni man, her family and the State Department said. ...more

September 19, 2008

A 37-year-old man being taken to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation is in stable condition after jumping off a second-story roof of the Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach. ...more

September 14, 2008

A Personal Account The Hillsborough County Public Schools Transportation Department is getting hundreds of calls a day. Either hundreds of people have wrong numbers or there are hundreds of irate parents who are irritated over school bus transportation. I think it's the latter of the two. ...more

September 13, 2008

Hillsborough County deputies have identified a man struck by a car Sunday in Dover: He is Juan A. Perez, 20, of Hillsborough County. ...more

September 11, 2008