Some Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High parents have agreed to take a portion of the school's students "under their wings" in an effort to show them positive behaviors. ...more

January 7, 2009

A jury has acquitted Amos Mequel Busby of charges he grabbed a woman off a South Tampa street and beat and raped her for three hours, even though DNA testimony linked him to the woman. ...more

December 18, 2008

TAMPA A jury has acquitted Amos Mequel Busby of charges he grabbed a woman off a South Tampa street and repeatedly raped her for three hours, even though testimony indicates his DNA was found on her. The jury deliberated for about 3 hours before acquitting Busby on all charges. He had been charged with kidnapping and seven counts of sexual battery the morning of Aug. 11, 2005. ...more

December 17, 2008

Jurors deliberated for four hours Thursday before finding Sharon Sprout guilty of second-degree murder in the 2004 killing of her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Candiano. ...more

November 21, 2008

Jurors deliberated for four hours today before finding Sharon Sprout guilty of second-degree murder in the 2004 killing of longtime boyfriend, Anthony Candiano. She will likely be sentenced to life in prison at a hearing Dec. 23. Sprout, 51, shot Candiano in the head as he slept in their Regency Park home on July 10, 2004. Early that morning, Sprout retrieved a .38-caliber pistol from a desk in another bedroom. She then went into the master bedroom, pointed the gun behind Candiano's right ear and pulled the trigger. The bullet cut a path through Candiano's brain, instantly killing the 64-year-old. ...more

November 20, 2008

Let's pretend abortions had not been legalized in 1973. Pretend it is 1991 and 18 years after Row v. Wade. Assume 1 million babies had been allowed to live and they are now 18 and entering the work place. I know many will still be in school but the following are conservative estimates. Do your own math using your estimates. Let's assume they begin work at an average of $12,000. FICA taxes are 15 percent including their employers share. Say the next year another million had been spared execution and begin work and this continues through year 2008. Since government does nothing well (Thomas Jefferson), all the FICA taxes earned nothing. Since I am an optimist I also consider over this 17-year period that wages and FICA taxes go up on average of 5 percent a year. By the end of 2008 the Social Security Trust Fund will have collected 2.6 trillion more dollars. ...more

November 15, 2008

After a Ku Klux Klan initiation at a Louisiana campsite went awry, authorities said, a recruit who tried to back out was shot dead. The body of the woman, who traveled from Oklahoma, was dumped on a rural roadside and covered with brush. Her belongings were set aflame. ...more

November 12, 2008

A Roman Catholic nun who accused a Hindu mob of raping her said Friday that she will not cooperate with local police, alleging that they stood by idly during the attack. ...more

October 25, 2008

In a city where luck means everything, O.J. Simpson came out the big loser - and his unlucky number in a case full of bizarre twists was 13. ...more

October 5, 2008

Industrial manufacturer Honeywell said Tuesday that it has developed a new nitrogen-based fertilizer that is difficult to ignite - a discovery that could reduce criminals' ability to make explosives used in major terrorist attacks such as the Oklahoma City bombing. ...more

September 24, 2008