Police have arrested a teen in connection with the attempted rape of a 38-year-old woman in an Ybor City parking garage. ...more

September 5, 2009

Police have arrested a teen in connection with the attempted rape of a 38-year-old woman in an Ybor City parking garage. Javon Cooper, 16, of 915 N. Newport Ave., Tampa, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder, attempted sexual battery and aggravated battery with great bodily harm. ...more

September 4, 2009

A committee of parents, teachers and students at Armwood High School voted unanimously Wednesday to keep a book in its media center after it was challenged by a parent who objected to an explicit passage. ...more

January 9, 2008

Residents can judge for themselves whether a New York Times best-seller under challenge in the Hillsborough County school system is too intense for teens. ...more

January 2, 2008

Residents can judge for themselves whether a New York Times bestseller under challenge in the Hillsborough County school system is too intense for teens. ...more

December 29, 2007

Residents can judge for themselves whether a New York Times bestseller under challenge in the Hillsborough County school system is too intense for teens. ...more

December 29, 2007

Not all teenagers are reading "Harry Potter." The Hillsborough County School Board discovered that at Tuesday's board meeting, when a mother read a graphic passage from a book her daughter checked out of her high school library. ...more

December 13, 2007

A man arrested in several rape cases pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of burglary with assault and sexual battery, stemming from an attack in 2003 and another in 2004. ...more

October 31, 2007

TAMPA - Jerrod Pass, charged with seven counts of rape and one of attempted rape, pleaded not guilty today to charges of sexual battery and burglary with assault. ...more

October 30, 2007

A man charged and jailed in connection with six Tampa rapes was charged Friday in a seventh, which involves a 10-year-old girl. ...more

October 27, 2007