To Fire Chief Keith Chapman, their value was obvious. Having experienced first-hand the life-saving potential of ultrasound machines when he worked several years ago in Tampa General Hospital's emergency room, he dreamed of possessing similar transportable tools for the city's 45-member team of firefighter-paramedics. ...more

November 4, 2009

A 31-year-old Clearwater man has been arrested in Minneapolis in connection with a slaying in a Clearwater motel last year. ...more

April 17, 2009

A 24-year-old father of twin baby girls was arrested at his home Monday evening, accused of killing one of the infants in December after being bothered by her cries, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 28, 2009

Witnesses to January's single-engine plane crash into Old Tampa Bay said they saw the plane bank right and then left, then sweep up into the air before stalling and plunging into the water, according to federal investigators. ...more

December 25, 2008

Federal investigators say witnesses to a January single-engine plane crash into Old Tampa Bay said they saw the plane bank right and then left, then sweep up into the air before stalling and plunging into the water. ...more

December 22, 2008

A 44-year-old laborer was arrested Friday night on a charge of second-degree murder in the Feb. 11 killing of 44-year-old Donald Kay. ...more

February 16, 2008

When Penny Hammock discovered her 71-year-old mother's body four years ago, she said, the murder scene in the South Tampa apartment was like a horror film. The image doesn't go away, and Hammock's life will never be the same. ...more

December 14, 2007

TAMPA — Police have arrested a Minnesota man on a murder charge stemming from a Tampa woman's death four years ago. ...more

December 13, 2007

HOLMES BEACH - Investigators know Carla A. Beard left a residential drug rehabilitation center in Sarasota on Nov. 26 and that she died of blunt trauma to the head about two days later on Anna Maria Island. ...more

December 4, 2007

MANATEE COUNTY - Holmes Beach police consider a woman's death suspicious after her partially clothed body was found Saturday afternoon in a wooded area, a police release states. ...more

December 2, 2007