Warning: Giving out rides to strangers — or refusing to pick them up — can be a dangerous undertaking. ...more

May 6, 2008

A Tampa man arrested Saturday night faces 58 charges and remains in Orient Road Jail today with bail set at $410,000. ...more

February 3, 2008

TAMPA - Police arrested two men after they found 175 ecstasy pills during a traffic stop Monday. ...more

January 29, 2008

An old cow thought to have been attacked by dogs was shot - 11 times - to end its suffering. ...more

December 18, 2007

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at his high school in this placid town in southern Finland on Wednesday, killing seven other students and the principal before mortally wounding himself in a rampage that stunned a nation where gun crime is rare. ...more

November 8, 2007

Eighty six years ago, Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1921 (11th month, 11th day, 11th hour,) the Unknown Soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington. The Tomb bears the inscription "Here rest in honored glory an American soldier known only but to God." Congress later directed an unknown soldier from each of the three wars; W.W.II, Korean War and Vietnam, be buried near or beside the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The W.W.II and Korean soldiers were buried on Memorial Day in 1958 in marble crypts at the head of the tomb, and the Unknown Soldier from Vietnam was buried between them. Members of the Honor Guard Company of the 1st Battle Group, 3rd Infantry, Fort Myers, Va. keeps a sentry on duty at all times at the tomb. The sentry is changed every hour during the day and about every two hours at night. ...more

November 3, 2007

BROOKSVILLE - A manhunt near three public schools continues this afternoon in Hernando County after a bungled home burglary resulted in the intruder being shot in the stomach and buttock, authorities said. ...more

October 17, 2007

An appellate court on Friday struck down a ruling that would have given convicted murderer Thomas Wayne Patterson a new trial. ...more

October 13, 2007