TAMPA - Educational and work programs could divert youngsters from joining gangs, as could a greater focus on neighborhood and community involvement, according to recommendations released today from an anti-gang summit. ...more

January 30, 2008

As we mark the 79th anniversary of Dr. King's birth, it's time to sound the alarm, as Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes did in calling black Americans to oppose discrimination in "A Dream Deferred." ...more

January 20, 2008

Darren Hambrick's third foray into the criminal justice system ended much the same as his first two. ...more

January 14, 2008

The public is invited to a free one-man show by writer, director and performer Bob Devin Jones of St. Petersburg at 2 p.m. Sunday at Brandon Regional Library, 619 Vonderburg Drive. Jones will portray Harry T. Moore, generally considered the first civil rights martyr in America, the night before he was killed and his wife, Harriette, was fatally injured by a bomb exploding under the floor of their bedroom on Christmas Day 1951, in Mims. ...more

January 7, 2008

Fallen "American Idol" star Jessica Sierra stood in a courtroom Thursday morning, trying in vain to cover the worried look on her face with her long brown hair. ...more

December 7, 2007

TAMPA - Fallen "American Idol" star Jessica Sierra stood in the courtroom this morning, her long brown hair covering the worried look on her face. Her attorney, John Fitzgibbons, told Circuit Judge Daniel Perry that he wasn't ready to directly address the charges against Sierra but would enter a plea of not guilty on her behalf to charges of disorderly intoxication and misdemeanor resisting an officer without violence. ...more

December 6, 2007

A local doctor accused of running a prescription "pill mill" has been ordered to close his practice for one year. ...more

November 20, 2007

TAMPA - A federal judge denied a new trial for a former U.S. Special Operations Command official who claimed the military had prevented a defense witness from testifying for him in his trial. ...more

November 14, 2007

A crowd gave a hero's welcome to a 20-year-old freed from a 10-year prison sentence imposed on him for having underage sex in a hotel room at a New Year's Eve party. ...more

November 12, 2007

On its face, it sounds absurd. The state attorney's office signed a contract with a convicted rapist. ...more

October 10, 2007