Pro Bowl kick returner Clifton Smith of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers said Wednesday he owns a daily reminder of the vicious hit he suffered Oct. 18 that produced a concussion. ...more

November 4, 2009

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth will be charged with DUI manslaughter after a Miami car crash that killed a pedestrian, according to people familiar with the case. ...more

April 1, 2009

When Tampa hosted its first Super Bowl 25 years ago, the nation snickered at what many considered a small Florida town out of its league in presuming it could host a major sports celebration in the style of Miami, Los Angeles and New Orleans. ...more

February 1, 2009

A man hiding beneath a woman's motel room window early this morning turned out to be a registered sex offender on probation until 2015, police said. ...more

December 27, 2008

The fraud investigation of Wall Street money manager Bernard L. Madoff took unusual twists Wednesday as the U.S. attorney general removed himself and the Securities and Exchange Commission looked into the relationship between Madoff's niece and a former SEC attorney who reviewed Madoff's business. ...more

December 18, 2008

David Bishop, 43, entered a guilty plea today on three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior involving teenage girls. ...more

December 15, 2008

Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years. ...more

November 30, 2008

Colombia's government readied emergency measures Sunday to appease irate investors who lost tens of millions of dollars in the collapse of pyramid schemes that caused riots, scores of arrests and two deaths. ...more

November 17, 2008

Robert Pettyjohn, who authorities said was part of one of the worst local animal cruelty sprees in recent history, is back in jail on a probation violation charge. ...more

October 20, 2008

Five teens accused in the videotaped beating of a Polk County cheerleader were due in court today but attorneys asked the judge to continue the proceeding until Nov. 18. Mercades Nichols, 17, Brittini Hardcastle, 17, April Cooper, 14, Britney Mayes, 17, and Kayla Hassell, 15, were scheduled for pretrial hearings this morning at the Polk County courthouse in Bartow. Their attorneys told Judge Keith Spoto they needed to delay the proceeding because of depositions set for later this month. The judge granted the requests. ...more

October 7, 2008