Hundreds of people packed the Tampa Convention Center's East Hall for the 8 On Your Side Health and Fitness Expo today. ...more

February 27, 2009

Clearwater police are seeking the public's help identifying a bank robber. ...more

February 27, 2009

Jose Solier has been missing nearly eight months, and his family just wants to know what happened to him. "We're just hoping for closure — that's it," his cousin Maria Rivera said. "Either he's dead or alive, but we just want closure." Hillsborough County deputies say they have no new leads. ...more

February 10, 2009

A 13-year-old boy is back home unharmed a day after he was last seen riding his bicycle away from school, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said this afternoon. ...more

February 7, 2009

Polk County deputies say they have located an 11-year-old Lakeland boy previously reported missing. The boy was unharmed. ...more

January 30, 2009

Police are searching for the man who robbed a convenience store at knifepoint Monday night. ...more

January 30, 2009

Roselyn Martinez sat front and center with a wide grin. She had Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Luke McCown on one side of her and free safety Tanard Jackson on the other. ...more

January 28, 2009

So there you are in an Ybor City parking lot trying to force a dollar bill into that slot in the self-pay machine, and the dollar won't go in. ...more

January 27, 2009

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Luke McCown and free safety Tanard Jackson on Friday visited the West Tampa Elementary School classroom of fifth-grade student Roselyn Martinez. ...more

January 24, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama may be making the rounds in Washington, but his face lined the route of Tampa's annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade on Monday in College Hill. Standing along the street in a new Obama T-shirt, Arthur Chester was in a good place in more ways than one. He had a good view of the festivities and of the future. "I never thought I'd ever see it," he said. "This is a dream. This is a dream that is happening for all the right reasons." All along the route, thousands stood, in some places seven or eight deep, cheering every float, every marching band and every elected official. "Everyone's excited. Everyone has come together," Anita Sturks said. ...more

January 20, 2009