A 66-year-old man driving a scooter on West Waters Avenue died this afternoon after colliding with a tow truck, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 31, 2009

A high-speed pursuit late Wednesday night ended with the suspect volunteering to be arrested. ...more

January 17, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - After leading the Bishop McLaughlin boys basketball team to a 10-1 record this season, Coach Greg O'Connell resigned Jan. 2. ...more

January 14, 2009

Roy Kronk, the utility worker who found Caylee Anthony's bones last month, says he wants to set the record straight: He had nothing to do with the child's death, and nobody told him where the body could be found. Kronk, who found Anthony in a swampy area less than half a mile from where the girl lived, appeared today on ABC's "Good Morning America." ...more

January 13, 2009

It may not be the most attractive or appealing definition, but in its strictest scientific sense, life is a common, sexually transmitted, medical condition with 100 percent mortality. At the time we are conceived, we are all programmed to die. Human life is being transmitted through "genes" the same way, since its creation. How well and how long each one of us lives is essentially decided by the genes, if we let nature take its course. ...more

January 11, 2009

The Florida Highway Patrol today identified a woman killed Wednesday after her car was rear-ended on North Dale Mabry Highway. ...more

January 2, 2009

As a bar manager, I would like to personally thank all the members of American Legion Post 69, who so graciously donated to the fundraiser for the domestic violence shelter. ...more

December 31, 2008

I need these pills refilled," the weary mother says, displaying an array of empty bottles on the desk in my office. "My son is bipolar." ...more

December 20, 2008

The meter reader who last week discovered the remains of a small child near missing toddler Caylee Anthony's house had called the sheriff's office on three consecutive days in August asking deputies to respond to the scene, a sheriff's spokesman said Thursday. ...more

December 18, 2008

Clearwater police said a "love triangle" led to a man being fatally stabbed this morning. Officers responding to a 911 call found Johnny Johnson, 36, of Tampa, critically injured at his girlfriend's house, 1356 Fairmount St., Clearwater. ...more

December 15, 2008