Middleton High School special education teacher Christina Lin Butler pleaded guilty Thursday to felony lewdness charges related to a three-week affair with a 16-year-old ninth-grader. ...more

October 24, 2008

Middleton High School special education teacher Christina Lin Butler pleaded guilty today to felony lewdness charges related to a three-week affair with a 16-year-old ninth-grader. ...more

October 23, 2008

Two men died following a crash tonight on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

September 5, 2008

State Sen. Victor Crist sees a change coming to the University Area as North 22nd Street is widened and residential and commercial buildings are constructed. ...more

August 20, 2008

In 1977, Alen Smith of Tampa started making Texas Best Barbeque Sauce, selling it first in the original Simon Schwartz Market on South MacDill Avenue in Tampa. Smith later sold the brand to a bigger food company. In 1993, it was sold to an even bigger conglomerate that had plans to make it a national brand. ...more

August 13, 2008

Land purchases could soon give the city a chance to redevelop a large swath of real estate along North 22nd Street, north of the infamous and now-demolished Gene's Bar. ...more

August 13, 2008

The dog days of summer may be here, but by Aug. 1, pigskins will be flying across MacDugal Park. ...more

July 23, 2008

53-year-old man was shot in the chest and struck with a gun outside his home early this morning after returning from an Amscot Financial branch, police said. ...more

July 18, 2008

The more-than-three-year wait is over. With a tweet of a whistle from Mayor Pam Iorio, the remodeled pool at Cyrus Greene Park reopened this week at 2101 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. ...more

June 14, 2008

A six-minute police chase through Palmetto ended just after 11 p.m. Monday with a car thief in custody, deputies said. ...more

June 10, 2008