TAMPA - Police are checking students at Blake High School today to make sure they are wearing seat belts as they enter and leave the downtown Tampa campus. ...more

December 6, 2007

Christmas shoppers are usually happy, and that can lead to blissful carelessness. Don't let down your guard. ...more

December 3, 2007

Daystar, the agency that helps the poor and homeless on property at the United Methodist Church on Lazella Street, has been found in violation of the county's zoning code. ...more

December 1, 2007

BELLEAIR - The former treasurer of the Belleair Civic Association was arrested today on charges she stole $6,800 from the association and more than $16,000 from the Wonders Foundation while she was on the charitable organization's board of directors, police said. ...more

November 27, 2007

Developer Gene Thomason last week told residents of his 1,000-home gated community to get ready for a bumpy ride, right before he and his lawyer walked out on them. ...more

November 19, 2007

Dear Abby: I am in an eight-year marriage that feels like a prison sentence. I have two children younger than 5 and a husband who is mentally and emotionally unstable and has severe addiction to prescription painkillers. If I divorce him, he will have joint custody of our children and, although I want them to know who their father is because they love him, I am terrified of what he might do to them as emotionally unstable as he is. I'm convinced he is capable of murder-suicide just to get at me. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA - A Brandon mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to aggravated white collar crime and other charges in a fraud scheme that bilked more than $400,000 from more than 20 people, officials said. ...more

November 5, 2007

Sixty-eight fire hydrants have been taken out of service after city water workers found problems with them during an inspection blitz. ...more

October 10, 2007

More than 1,350 apartment and condominium residents have had their addresses changed this year by the Hillsborough County 911 Administration. ...more

October 10, 2007

A woman who died after being handcuffed and detained at the Phoenix airport was on her way to an alcohol rehabilitation program in Tucson, her family said Monday, accusing police of manhandling her during the ordeal. ...more

October 2, 2007