The impact was heard a mile away. The driver of a flatbed truck was released from St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa about 5 p.m. after the truck was struck by a train Tuesday morning. ...more

March 4, 2009

The driver of a flatbed truck was in serious condition at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa after the truck was struck by a train this morning. ...more

March 3, 2009

The worlds of two people were forever altered the morning of Feb. 19. ...more

February 28, 2009

The worlds of two people were forever altered the morning of Feb. 19. ...more

February 27, 2009

War hero Clay Yarber hated to fly — and no wonder. He was twice shot down during Vietnam and had the medals and wounds to prove it. His daughter Nicole is still learning to live with the fact he died during what was supposed to be a routine commuter flight last week in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. ...more

February 20, 2009

The sheriff's finance director pleaded no contest Thursday to a charge of DUI causing property damage. ...more

February 13, 2009

Emily Vernon, 40, was adjudicated guilty and received the standard DUI sanctions. ...more

February 12, 2009

Today marks 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll. The passing decades haven't diminished fascination with the night of Feb. 3, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens boarded the plane after a performance for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes. ...more

February 3, 2009

A lot of dominoes had to topple to trigger the cannonade of collisions a year ago today that turned a rural stretch of Interstate 4 into a vision from some level of hell. ...more

January 9, 2009

A lot of dominoes had to topple to trigger the cannonade of collisions a year ago Friday that turned a rural stretch of Interstate 4 into a vision from some level of hell. ...more

January 8, 2009