Nearly 30 residents attended a community forum Thursday night to air concerns about a 10-year, rent-free contract that allows the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA to headquarter a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. The East Tampa facility, at 7911 N. Willie Black Drive, is owned by the city and managed by the Tampa Sports Authority. The course, opened in 1952, was the only one open to blacks during segregation. ...more

November 14, 2008

A study by a Washington-based foundation found more people, more disposable income and a financially healthier East Tampa community than the one defined by 2000 U.S. Census data. ...more

November 12, 2008

When a Hillsborough County sheriff's sergeant tried to pull over a 1994 Isuzu driven by Duane Linscott in east Tampa Sunday night, mayhem ensued. ...more

November 10, 2008

TALLAHASEE - The Florida Supreme Court rejected the latest round of appeals for Wayne Tompkins, sentenced to die for killing an East Tampa teenager and burying under her home in 1983. ...more

November 7, 2008

Marvin Knight doesn't have to look past the customers at his East Tampa fish market to see where President-elect Barack Obama needs to focus his promise of change. ...more

November 6, 2008