With flames licking at his back, Anthony Grace leaned out a second-story apartment window, a toddler slipping from his grip, and had little choice but to let the girl go and hope her uncle would catch her. ...more

March 23, 2009

Upset that a woman declined to have sex with him, a 56-year-old Tampa man stabbed her in the upper torso, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Valentin Sanchez on Sunday morning at 14102 N. 20th St. ...more

March 9, 2009

A Riverview man tried strangling his girlfriend with a telephone cord, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

March 9, 2009

Without Walls International Church escaped the specter of foreclosure after its lender agreed to drop demands for control of its books, tapes and other intellectual property, Pastor Randy White said Sunday. ...more

March 9, 2009

Volusia County officials say two teen girls were sunbathing when they were run over by a pickup truck on the beach. ...more

March 8, 2009

A 27-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested Sunday morning, accused of attacking his girlfriend and his godsister at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, according to criminal arrest affidavits. ...more

March 2, 2009

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist stuck strongly to his alliance with President Barack Obama over the federal stimulus package - an alliance that has angered many Florida Republicans - in a nationally televised debate with Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana Sunday. ...more

February 22, 2009

A teenager leaving a nightclub on Armenia Avenue was arrested Sunday morning, accused of driving under the influence, striking and killing a pedestrian then driving away, according to a Tampa Police Department arrest report. ...more

February 15, 2009

Hundreds of people are lined up in Fort Myers today for tickets to a town hall meeting with President Barack Obama. ...more

February 9, 2009

Rhett Hopkins refused to pay his $4 bar tab at O'Malley's bar in Sarasota because, he said, he was an undercover officer with the Tampa Police Department and worked on homeland security. ...more

February 2, 2009