It's a bird! It's a plane! No ... it's MacDill's Special Operations Command team. ...more

December 6, 2008

This evening, two members of Socom's parachute team jumped from an airplane during a break in the Academy of the Holy Names middle and high school soccer matches. It was one of many events slated for Jaguar Spirit Night. ...more

December 5, 2008

French authorities say an Airbus A320 airplane carrying seven people has crashed during a training flight in the Mediterranean off the coast of southern France. ...more

November 27, 2008

A 44-year-old Tampa man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of carrying a weapon on an airplane. Raul Gambe Mata admitted in a plea agreement that he brought a hunting knife with a six-inch blade in his carry-on bag when he attempted to board Delta flight 5634 from Tampa to Cincinnati on July 29. ...more

October 23, 2008

Injuries have Florida State down to seven linemen with experience. ...more

October 21, 2008

Al Austin, a longtime, high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, today sent to his list of political contacts an e-mail containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Barack Obama. ...more

October 15, 2008

A single-engine plane has crashed on the runway at Tampa North Aero Park. ...more

September 25, 2008

A new political advertisement aired on Channel 8 shows how misleading these ads can be. This ad tells how Sarah Palin voted to allow shooting of wolves from airplanes. It is very graphic. And it is true. But Alaska is a different world. In an area of 1,000 miles (equal to Orlando to Detroit), are many Native American villages. The people of these villages are allowed to live a subsistence life. That being, they may kill caribou to provide meat for the winter months. One caribou will sustain a family for the whole winter. But when the wolf population increases, the caribou herd is in danger. Wolves will kill for the sport. If the caribou herd declines, or moves away, the families of these small villages have no food for the winter. ...more

September 22, 2008

A Tampa motorcyclist faces several charges after leading law enforcement officials on a half-hour chase through Hillsborough County, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

September 8, 2008

I'm in New Orleans now, and have been since Hurricane Gustav crossed over Cuba, and got itself flattered by the mayor as the mother of all storms. ...more

September 5, 2008