Reality show contestant Ryan Jenkins' life ended in a way that could have been scripted for TV: as police investigated the wanted man's suicide at a secluded Canadian motel, word came Monday of a mysterious young woman checking him in. Accused of the gruesome death of his ex-wife, a model whose body was so badly mutilated it had to be identified by her breast implants' serial numbers, Jenkins evaded a massive international manhunt for days as he crossed from California into his native Canada. ...more

August 24, 2009

Team from British Columbia defends Tournament of Champions title. ...more

January 4, 2009

TAMPA Todd Bentley, the former drug-abusing evangelist who drew thousands to a series of summer revivals in Lakeland, plans on divorcing his wife amid revelations that he is romantically involved with the nanny of his children, according to his ministry. Rumors of an extramarital affair surfaced near the end of the 15-week revival, and, in August, Bentley resigned from the board of directors of Fresh Fire Ministries. He plans to move to South Carolina, where he will undergo counseling by fellow ministers who are focusing on his "restoration," according to a statement posted on the ministry's Web site last week. ...more

December 2, 2008

PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan - Taliban fighters with assault rifles shredded a U.S. aid group's SUV with dozens of bullets Wednesday, killing three Western women and their Afghan driver amid an escalating militant onslaught against humanitarian workers in Afghanistan. ...more

August 14, 2008

Two of the five feet that have washed up on the shores of British Columbia in the past year belonged to the same person, but no identities have been determined in any of the cases, police said Thursday. ...more

July 11, 2008

It wasn't quite the finish Tampa Tribe Under-17 coach Tom FitzSimons had in mind when his team surprisingly reached the final of Sunday's Rising Stars Division at the Dick's Sporting Goods Lacrosse Tournament of Champions. Then again, he never envisioned even getting this far in the first place. ...more

January 7, 2008

Teams from across the United States and Canada already had long left the Wesley Chapel District Park, yet there was Josh Gross, sales and public relations manager for NDP Lacrosse, which ran this past weekend's Dick's Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions. ...more

January 6, 2008

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Friday that it will restrict its use of Taser stun guns in response to a watchdog agency report that officers were firing them too often. ...more

December 15, 2007

When the Lightning signed defenseman Brad Lukowich to a three-year contract this summer, they did more than bring back a savvy veteran who helped Tampa Bay win the Stanley Cup in 2004. ...more

October 9, 2007