A Tampa man who couldn't afford his car payments paid a man $200 to burn the vehicle, investigators say. ...more

January 13, 2009

Corey Steen committed child abuse, impregnating a girl, investigators say. ...more

January 12, 2009

A Tampa man has been charged with swindling a woman he met on a dating Web site out of about $60,000, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 8, 2009

Ronald Baumgartner stabbed someone in the back Tuesday and bit a person on the head Wednesday, Tampa police say. ...more

January 8, 2009

A judge today denied a motion from a Tampa man to dismiss an indictment accusing him of being part of a Gambino crime family conspiracy. ...more

January 7, 2009

A federal magistrate is recommending that a Tampa man charged with being part of a Gambino crime family conspiracy be tried along with other defendants accused in the conspiracy. James V. Cadicamo was arrested in August along with four other men charged with participating in a vast racketeering conspiracy under the umbrella of the Gambino crime family. At the same time, John A. "Junior" Gotti was named in a separate, similar indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Tampa. ...more

January 6, 2009

A Tampa man struck his roommate in the head with a 3-foot metal cane Thursday afternoon, causing a 2 1/2-inch gash above the roommate's left eye, Tampa police say. ...more

January 2, 2009

A 56-year-old Tampa woman died Wednesday night after her car was struck from behind by another on North Dale Mabry Highway south of Van Dyke Road, authorities said. The victim was heading south when her 2005 Hyundai was hit by a 2004 Ford pickup driven by Jerrod S. Bogush, 19, of Odessa, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

January 2, 2009

A dancer from Class Act strip club in Tampa remained behind bars in Land O' Lakes last week following a Dec. 19 fight that left one victim with a knife wound on his chest. ...more

December 31, 2008

Police are searching for a 79-year-old Tampa man with Alzheimer's disease who wandered away from home this afternoon. ...more

December 29, 2008