TAMPA - A Tampa police detective and an FBI agent paid large sums of money to a known thief, liar and convicted felon, using him as their chief informant during an investigation of the Latin Kings street gang, a defense attorney is trying to prove in a hearing that began Thursday. ...more

November 8, 2007

Florida's health regulators, citing the ongoing investigation of WellCare Health Plans by state and federal agents, on Monday night slammed the brakes on the company's expansion in Florida and announced it will review its own contracting policies. ...more

October 30, 2007

Florida's health regulators, citing the ongoing investigation of WellCare Health Plans by state and federal agents, on Monday night slammed the brakes on the company's expansion in Florida and announced it will review its own contracting policies. ...more

October 29, 2007

About 200 agents from the FBI and other federal and state agencies descended on the headquarters of WellCare Health Plans on Wednesday morning in a raid, seizing laptop computers, files and boxes of documents. ...more

October 25, 2007

A trip that began as a routine charter boat jaunt to the Bahamas turned horribly wrong somewhere on the high seas, with four crew members still missing Wednesday and two men who hired the vessel in custody facing federal charges. ...more

September 27, 2007

The key witness who testified against former Tampa housing chief Steve LaBrake has fulfilled the financial terms of his sentence, court documents show. ...more

September 14, 2007

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. - Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed were stopped for speeding a month ago here, but it was what happened next that kept them detained. Among the items found in their Toyota Camry were a box of bullets and several pipe bombs. C.W. "Butch" Henerey, second-in-command at the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, says there were other mysterious items in the trunk, as well. ...more

September 5, 2007