Col. David Parrish, who oversees Hillsborough County's jails, has stepped down, sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway has confirmed. ...more

September 15, 2008

It's sometimes difficult to prepare for a phone interview with a member of a band I don't like. That part of me I need to repress for obvious reasons wants to ask: ...more

August 8, 2008

The knock at the door at 9 a.m. was soft. Through the window, I could see it was my new neighbor, Beth, and her small daughter, Adrianna. They had just returned from a trip to Pittsburgh and had visited one of the Carnegie Museums. At the gift shop, they picked up a souvenir for me. ...more

August 6, 2008

Bruce E. Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed freeze-drying equipment from a bioweapons lab that fall that allows scientists to convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case. ...more

August 5, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - As a graphic artist, Richard DePippo made his living by drawing. The 67-year-old Land O' Lakes resident jokes, "I was the one who handed Moses the hammer and chisel." ...more

July 31, 2008

Cutting back. It's what we've been hearing about over the last few months. Airline companies and the financial industry are doing it. But are you? ...more

June 29, 2008

SARASOTA - A man hit by lightning this week has emerged from a medically induced coma and is expected to make a full recovery. ...more

June 27, 2008

TAMPA - At an emotional funeral service for Tampa Police Department Master Patrol Officer Victor Guerrero, dignitaries remembered him as a good officer and loving family man who deserved respect. ...more

May 7, 2008

Cinco de Mayo. Around here it's less a holiday than an excuse to stretch a long weekend through Monday. It's another reason to fire up the grill and sit outside in the prequel to another Florida summer. ...more

May 5, 2008

TAMPA -- The mood remains somber in the WTSP, Channel 10, newsroom, where employees are concerned about the station's longtime weatherman, Dick Fletcher, who remains in an intensive care unit at a St. Petersburg hospital after a stroke Monday. ...more

February 22, 2008