TAMPA - The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will unveil a new anti-terror initiative Wednesday that provides businesses with domestic security information to protect assets. ...more

May 6, 2008

Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. ...more

May 5, 2008

Regarding "Company Pulls Plug On Jihadist Web Site" (Metro, Feb. 20): According to a tiny article in the Metro section, a Web site considered to be "al-Qaida supporters' oldest and most stable Web sites" was dismantled on Tuesday. This site was hosted by a Tampa firm and running unabated for an unknown amount of time. ...more

February 22, 2008

The Barrio Latino Commission, the citizens' panel charged with protecting the architectural integrity of Ybor City, is mistaken to oppose a proposal by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to close a street adjacent to the sheriff's headquarters. ...more

February 6, 2008

The Department of Homeland Security has implemented new rules about documentation needed at entry points, including airports and ports. ...more

January 31, 2008

Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-Sept. 11 security rules to be unveiled today by federal officials. ...more

January 11, 2008

Up to three passenger-carrying American Airlines jets will be outfitted this spring with laser technology being developed to protect planes from missiles fired by terrorists. ...more

January 5, 2008

A member of the Colombian Medellin-based drug cartel who coordinated the kidnapping of an undercover federal agent in 2005 has been arrested, federal authorities said Friday. ...more

December 29, 2007

Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-intimate pat-down. ...more

December 21, 2007

A Tampa Bay area congressman is introducing legislation to beef up security measures for the U.S. student visa program, despite the raft of reforms enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks. ...more

December 5, 2007