Is the holiday's point to gather as much candy as possible? If so, we're again pulling an F on the culinary scorecard. It wasn't always so. ...more

October 23, 2009

Another former postal employee has admitted stealing gift cards out of the mail. ...more

August 3, 2009

Easter eggs will fall from the sky Saturday when The North Pointe Church hosts its first Egg Drop. Families are invited to watch as a helicopter drops 9,000 colorful plastic eggs, each filled with a treat. Children will be invited to fill their baskets. "We've all heard the question, 'What came first, the chicken or the egg?' We want this event to inspire the question, 'Where do eggs come from?' The answer is: They come from above," said Steve Wells, the church's executive pastor. ...more

April 10, 2009

Four Lake Placid middle school students are facing expulsion due to what the school calls gang-related activity in the past two months, but Principal Derrel Bryan said there has been no gang-related violence on the school's campus. ...more

February 5, 2009

A Sebring Middle School student was arrested Wednesday and charged with possession of a weapon on school property after he was allegedly found in possession of a razor blade. The 14-year-old student was taken to Sebring Police Department Officer Wilma Tindell's office by school paraprofessional Harry "Bud" Young, according to the arrest report. Young told the officer that students informed him the subject had the weapon while in the gym. ...more

November 13, 2008

A feud between families left one person beaten and three others stunned with Tasers Wednesday night after a group of seven to 10 people broke into a Crenshaw Street residence, Tampa police said. ...more

August 21, 2008

TAMPA - A 19-year-old Valrico man had a bottle of Olde English beer, Xanax and a cutting tool with a razor blade in his possession when deputies saw him and another man sitting in a Ford sport utility vehicle in Valrico on Wednesday night, deputies say. ...more

July 3, 2008

After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." ...more

May 2, 2008

Out of 20 more suspect lollipops seized by authorities Thursday, only one appears to have a piece of metal embedded in it, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. ...more

February 15, 2008

In a patch of earth behind the Falkenburg Road Jail grows pure heat. There are habaneros, jalapenos, long red peppers and stubby yellow ones. ...more

December 5, 2007