Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often don't qualify. ...more

December 15, 2009

A 55-year-old driver who ran a red light and hit another car caused a chain reaction of accidents that involved three other vehicles stopped in the opposite lane Sunday at 8:30 a.m. ...more

September 15, 2009

The woman who took a gun-shaped cigarette lighter into the Hillsborough County Courthouse last week, unintentionally causing an evacuation, will not be charged, Hillsborough County deputies said. ...more

August 13, 2009

Los Angeles police say actor LeVar Burton was involved in a five-car accident but wasn't seriously injured. ...more

July 14, 2009

A driver who caused a chain reaction crash on Florida Avenue that killed two women this afternoon was driving under the influence, Tampa police say. ...more

April 13, 2009

The Florida Highway Patrol is working to identify a person killed in a crash on Brandon Boulevard near Lithia Pinecrest Road on Friday after a van hit two utility poles and caught fire. ...more

March 14, 2009

Fog is affecting visibility along the Interstate 4 corridor as well as in Lakeland and between Plant City and downtown Tampa, News Channel 8 meteorologist Jennifer Hill said. However, lingering smoke from a brush fire was affecting drivers on I-4 and Old Polk City Road earlier this morning but had dissipated by 6 a.m., TBO.com traffic reporter Alicia Roberts said. ...more

March 10, 2009

A woman arrested in the shooting death of actor Mark Ruffalo's younger brother was cleared of wrongdoing and released after police were shown evidence that the wound was self-inflicted, her attorney said Wednesday. ...more

December 10, 2008

A Tampa man authorities blamed for an explosion at a Port Richey fireworks tent pleaded guilty to first-degree arson this morning. ...more

December 5, 2008

It's never been more important for Floridians who share in the benefits and beauty of our green spaces to care for them wisely. ...more

December 2, 2008