The director of the zoo where a teenager was killed by an escaped tiger acknowledged Thursday that the wall around the animal's pen was 12 1/2 feet high - well below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation's zoos. ...more

December 28, 2007

City Attorney David Smith has rejected Councilman John Dingfelder's request to provide more detailed information about laid-off city employees. ...more

December 5, 2007

TAMPA - The state Attorney General has filed Medicaid-fraud charges against a man who worked for a company providing in-home support for developmentally disabled people. ...more

October 19, 2007

The new start Harold Jones hoped to give his friend turned out to last only a few hours. ...more

October 13, 2007

TAMPA - A man found dead in a Tampa business at 3004 N. 22nd St. was from Oviedo and just out of jail, according to a friend of his who leases the building. "He was an old friend and down on his luck," Harold Jones said. "We grew up together, and he called me up when he got out of jail." ...more

October 12, 2007

TAMPA - Police will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. today to provide details about Jordan Gann, 27, who investigators say is a con artist targeting single women in the Bay area. ...more

October 9, 2007

Parents picking up children at Monroe Middle School didn't heed the no-parking signs along Montgomery Avenue until Tampa police Officer Betty Williams started issuing citations. ...more

October 4, 2007