Seven women and five men will decide whether movies distributed by a Hollywood movie producer who uses the name Max Hardcore violate the standards of the Tampa area community and are criminally obscene. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA - Seven women and five men will decide whether movies distributed by a Hollywood movie producer who uses the name Max Hardcore are criminally obscene, that is, whether they violate the standards of the Tampa area community. ...more

May 27, 2008

TAMPA - Three law enforcement agencies in Polk County are working together to solve a string of burglaries this month that targeted retail stores. ...more

May 21, 2008

If there has been a central theme to the best start in Rays history, it is that they generally haven't beaten themselves. Self-destruction, a staple of Tampa Bay baseball for so long, has been largely absent this year - at least until this weekend. ...more

May 19, 2008

An Ocala jury went home without reaching a verdict Thursday in the tax evasion trial of Wesley Snipes. ...more

February 1, 2008

AVON PARK — It's Friday, about 11 a.m. Two SUVs drive up, and five people get out. There's no sign outside identifying the name of the business to G&R Supermarket, in one of Avon Park's sketchiest neighborhoods. It's the sort of place that looks scary, but the people were companionable. For 30 minutes, Anthony Lomonico parked his maroon Cadillac Escalade in the Lacey Hills neighborhood of southeast Avon Park and tried to call a friend on his cell phone, but with no success. There were several men on the street, some just standing there looking at the cars, wondering what was going on. ...more

January 26, 2008

Wesley Snipes may have to waive a claim that he previously received ineffective counsel, a judge said Tuesday, after a lengthy jury selection concluded in the actor's tax trial. ...more

January 16, 2008

A 25-year-old Dover woman who claimed to have been kidnapped Sunday night outside a Dover taco stand has recanted her story, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

January 8, 2008

No matter how angry we get with its sometimes greedy and corrupt characters, sports has a way of always pulling us back in. Maybe it's the fairy-tale factor. Like a fairy tale, sports make us believe anything can happen. ...more

January 6, 2008

With an electric bill expected to top $40 million this year, the Hillsborough County School District has turned to a team of five men and a few posses of students. ...more

December 25, 2007