PLANT CITY — Four prisoners were taken to Tampa General Hospital with minor injuries this morning after a pickup hit their transport van, Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Larry Coggins said. ...more

December 19, 2007

AVON PARK — The day Walter Rollf found out Pearl Harbor had been bombed is one of the few times in his life he remembers crying. "When that happened and again when President Roosevelt died, I sat and bawled," Rollf said. Just 10 days before the Dec. 7, 1941 attack, Rollf, a Navy seaman, had been transferred out of Pearl Harbor. "I cried mostly because I wasn't there, and I feel like I should have been," Rollf said, then pausing. "I lost a lot of good buddies that day, and it made me feel worse because I wasn't there with them." Rollf, a fifth-generation military man, would be what many consider lucky, having never been in combat during his years in the military, but he says he wishes things were different. ...more

December 7, 2007

Bucs running back Michael Bennett, recently acquired in a trade with Kansas City, did not mind sitting down and answering questions for this week's Wide Right column, but he did lay out one condition. ...more

November 4, 2007

Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. ...more

October 28, 2007

With an inmate spared execution in Virginia on Wednesday, the United States is headed for the fewest executions in a year since the mid-1990s because of concerns over lethal injections and the Supreme Court's pending review of the issue. ...more

October 18, 2007

PLANT CITY - Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober's message wasn't always upbeat as featured speaker at today's Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting. Ober talked of cases he'd handled over the years, including those of juveniles with no respect for the law, such as a 14-year-old who killed a classmate and a 12-year-old who raped a mother in front of her children. ...more

October 10, 2007