TAMPA - A Michigan woman took a pistol into a Tampa International Airport screening lane Sunday, police say. ...more

January 14, 2008

Late one night in the summer of 2005, Matthew Sepi, a 20-year-old Iraq combat veteran, headed out to a 7-Eleven in the seedy Las Vegas neighborhood where he had settled after leaving the Army. ...more

January 13, 2008

RIVERVIEW - Hillsborough County deputies found 49 bullets in the center console of a vehicle pulled over this morning for having an inoperable tag light. ...more

December 30, 2007

A 14-year-old boy who admitted that he planned a Columbine-style attack on a high school outside Philadelphia was sentenced Wednesday to as many as seven years in a juvenile treatment facility. ...more

December 20, 2007

Global warming is destroying species, raising sea levels and threatening millions of poor people, the United Nations' top scientific panel is expected to say in a report today that U.N. officials hope will help mobilize the world to take tougher actions on climate change. ...more

November 17, 2007

LAKELAND - Shawn Newberry, the 18-year-old who had an arsenal of weaponry and was arrested on a school weapon charge, was charged with 26 counts of possession of child pornography today, police said. ...more

November 1, 2007

TAMPA - A University of South Florida student charged with transporting explosives will not be released on bail, a federal judge ruled today. ...more

October 25, 2007

AMPA Three Tampa women took part in a paintball spree Wednesday night, riding through Ybor City while two fired a gas-powered paintball gun at people, police say. A man nearly was struck on the head by one shot, and a woman was hit and permanently disfigured, an arrest affidavit states. Jackie Yvonne Jones, Nekoma Keona Holmes and Rita Monique Girven were arrested this morning and charged with felony aggravated assault and felony aggravated battery. ...more

October 18, 2007

A home-schooled teenager who felt bullied amassed a cache of guns, knives and hand grenades and tried to recruit another boy for a possible school attack, authorities said Thursday. ...more

October 12, 2007

When Asa H. Coon got suspended for fighting on Monday, this was the 14-year-old's response to his schoolmates: 'I got something for you all.' ...more

October 11, 2007