Holy jurisprudence. Ybor City's Batman is getting his mask back. Hillsborough County Judge John Conrad today dismissed two misdemeanor charges Tampa police lodged against Walsh Ian Nichols when he refused orders to take off his Batman mask. ...more

February 16, 2009

Mann-Wagnon Memorial Park is locked behind an aging chain-link fence — a mix of weedy abandonment, boarded-up buildings and nature's beauty. This is Cecile Wagnon's legacy nearly 48 years after her death in 1961. In coming weeks, Tampa and Hillsborough County officials will take a new look at her last will and testament before deciding the park's future. Area residents are pressing a long-standing case that the property, 1101 E. River Cove Drive, should become home for a history museum and Stepping Stones, a nonprofit youth arts program. It also could house the art collection of folk artist and sculptor Taft Richardson. The Sulphur Springs resident died last year. ...more

February 11, 2009

A March hearing was set today for Vidal Mills, facing misdemeanor battery charges for beating a teen who allegedly boasted of killing his son – Jefferson High School football star Cedric "C.J." Mills. ...more

February 5, 2009

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has called up all of his Army National Guard troop and some Air National Guard units to get the state back on its feet following a crippling ice storm. ...more

January 31, 2009

There's an unsigned "no contest" plea in the criminal case folder of Emily Vernon. ...more

January 30, 2009

The city council is expected to vote Thursday on a settlement to end a more than decade-old dispute with two companies over the number of billboards they can put up. ...more

January 20, 2009

The city council is expected to vote Thursday on settlement to end a more than decade-old dispute with two companies over the number of billboards they can put up. ...more

January 19, 2009

The trial of a Tampa lawyer accused of hitting and shoving a News Channel 8 videographer was delayed today until March. ...more

January 14, 2009

The Florida mother charged with murdering her little daughter will not be deposed from jail in a defamation lawsuit. ...more

January 8, 2009

For months, health care workers from Comfort Keepers took care of Tampa City Councilman Joseph Caetano's wife, Nair, who has been bedridden for several years. ...more

January 8, 2009