A motorcyclist was killed Friday evening in collision with a car at U.S. 301 and Interstate 75, the Florida Highway Patrol reports. While heading north on U.S. 301 about 7:24 p.m., a 1997 Camaro driven by Wayne Timothy Gardner II, 21, of Apollo Beach, turned into the path of a 1991 Sukuzi while attempting to merge onto I-75. ...more

October 31, 2009

Police are continuing to search today for an 80-year-old woman who suffers from Alzheimer's. Lola Thompson was last seen at 4 p.m. Monday near North 30th Street and 113th Avenue. She was heading north, Tampa police said. ...more

September 22, 2009

Trappers last night snared a Florida black bear in the backyard of a homeowner in Hernando County, officials said. Today, the bear is getting tagged and will take a ride somewhere to the north of where it was captured, where it will be released back into the wild. ...more

August 26, 2009

A 25-year-old Tampa man has been charged with DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide in connection with a crash Saturday morning. ...more

April 6, 2009

SEATTLE - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and miners caroused in its bars before heading north to Alaska's gold fields, will print its final edition Tuesday. ...more

March 16, 2009

An 8-year-old Dade City boy remains in critical condition this afternoon after the vehicle he was in crashed into a tractor-trailer on Old Lakeland Highway in Zephyrhills, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

February 23, 2009

A low, dense mangrove forest tickling the western edge of Old Tampa Bay, hides what could be the nation's most populated winter roost for spring's icon – the American robin. ...more

February 20, 2009

Four Colombians pleaded guilty today to conspiring to smuggle 3,894 pounds of cocaine into the United States on a go-fast boat that was apprehended in the eastern Pacific Ocean. ...more

January 13, 2009

Police have released the identity of a man killed in a head-on collision in Citrus County on Thursday. Paul James McDermott II, 41, of Beverly Hills, was killed after his car veered into oncoming traffic on County Road 491 near U.S. 41, police said. He died at the scene. His identity was withheld Thursday pending notification of relatives. ...more

January 9, 2009

One motorcyclist died and another left the scene following the crashes of two motorcycles on U.S. 301 near U.S. 41 on Sunday night. ...more

December 22, 2008