A South Florida minister who pleaded no contest for impregnating his 15-year-old goddaughter has an unusual request. Thirty-five-year-old Cory Cortezis Lewis on Thursday asked a judge to serve 1 1/2 years in prison instead of the 2-year house arrest sentence he got last week. ...more

October 23, 2009

The state is setting aside about $23 million in federal stimulus loans to replace several miles of aging water distribution pipes in downtown Tampa, starting this fall. ...more

June 1, 2009

A retail center that will include a Quiznos sandwich shop is under construction on North 22nd Street and slated for a late summer opening. ...more

March 27, 2009

Fifty years ago Sunday, 216 people filed into the first service of St. Lawrence Catholic Church and fell far short of filling the Hillsborough High School auditorium. ...more

February 9, 2009

Fifty years ago today 216 people filed into the first service of St. Lawrence Catholic Church and fell far short of filling the Hillsborough High School auditorium. Today was a different story. ...more

February 8, 2009

Even after a crucial deadline came and went, the financing arm of General Motors Corp. remained silent Saturday on whether it cleared a final hurdle to become a bank holding company and gain access to billions in federal bailout money. ...more

December 28, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) - Several analysts expressed skepticism Friday that the Federal Reserve's decision allowing GMAC Financial Services to become a bank holding company would spur many more people to buy cars. ...more

December 28, 2008

A jury was selected today in the case of a man accused of hiring people to repeatedly attack and try to kill his in-laws after they stopped giving him money. ...more

November 3, 2008

Relief workers are still finding mountain villages destroyed in the earthquake in southwestern Pakistan that have yet to receive aid, the Red Cross said Saturday. ...more

November 2, 2008

After being violently attacked two times, a fearful Grigori and Galina Komissarchuk asked their son-in-law, Alex Shevgert, if they could move into the home Shevgert shared with their daughter. The couple didn't realize that Shevgert had hired the attackers who had beaten the couple with a hammer, causing life-threatening injuries, court documents say. ...more

October 31, 2008