Detectives are asking the public for help finding a killer in the July 12 slaying of a cabdriver. ...more

July 21, 2008

Torrential rain Thursday afternoon flooded a neighborhood in East Tampa and closed one lane of State Road 60 near U.S. 41, slowing rush hour traffic to a crawl. ...more

July 18, 2008

TAMPA - Torrential rain this afternoon has flooded a neighborhood in East Tampa and closed one lane of State Road 60 near U.S. 41. ...more

July 17, 2008

A Palm Harbor man ran a stop sign this morning, lost control of his vehicle then collided with a van parked in front of a mobile home, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

July 6, 2008

After his older brother was fatally shot in what appeared to be a random carjacking, Dar Chanthavong was too grief-stricken to join his family whenever they pleaded in front of television cameras for information in the killing. ...more

June 24, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - After his older brother was fatally shot in what appeared to be a random carjacking, Dar Chanthavong was too grief-stricken to join his family whenever they pleaded in front of television cameras for information in the killing. Then last November, Chanthavong's mother, a nursing assistant who single-handedly raised $20,000 in reward money, died of brain cancer, less than two months after she was diagnosed. Sompong Chanthavong was the family member who worked most furiously to see that her son's killer was brought to justice, sometimes haranguing investigators for their failure to do so. Now her youngest son, Dar, has taken up the mantle. ...more

June 23, 2008