TAMPA Carol Ann Sample armed herself with a hammer and struck a person several times Monday morning, injuring his right wrist and back, Tampa police say. Officers arrested her at 10:45 a.m. Monday. ...more

November 11, 2008

Larik Cholak insisted this morning that Alex Shevgert telephoned him to let him know his parents-in-law were home the night of Dec. 12. ...more

November 10, 2008

A jury was selected today in the case of a man accused of hiring people to repeatedly attack and try to kill his in-laws after they stopped giving him money. ...more

November 3, 2008

After being violently attacked two times, a fearful Grigori and Galina Komissarchuk asked their son-in-law, Alex Shevgert, if they could move into the home Shevgert shared with their daughter. The couple didn't realize that Shevgert had hired the attackers who had beaten the couple with a hammer, causing life-threatening injuries, court documents say. ...more

October 31, 2008

A man arrested on burglary charges escaped from the back of a patrol car earlier today but was found this afternoon, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

October 27, 2008

A 46-year-old woman was arrested this morning on charges she struck a man in the head with a hammer at her apartment while taking his wallet from him, according to Hillsborough County jail records. ...more

October 18, 2008

Several hundred people stood under a hot white tent Friday in front of The Art Center at 719 Central Ave. to catch a glimpse of world-renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly. ...more

September 27, 2008

So my Beautiful and Talented Wife tries to print a document for her Healthy Together campaign, a local nonprofit program aimed at promoting healthy choices for Tampans, and her printer refuses to print. She gets an error message on her screen, "Cannot print." Being significantly smarter and techno-savvy than the average bear, my BTW logs off on her iMac, powers up her linked PC, and checks again on the printer. This is where it gets funny. Not just amusing, but really funny in a kind of scary way. ...more

September 2, 2008

For all the heavy hitting the Rays did during the weekend to accumulate a club-record offensive output against the Orioles, a couple of grounders to the right side Sunday gave Joe Maddon the best indication of where his team stands. ...more

September 1, 2008

A Lake Placid man remained in Highlands County Jail without bond Thursday after police say his DNA linked him to the scene of a burglary and grand theft at the Jalisco Food Market at 928 S. Main Ave., in Lake Placid. ...more

August 30, 2008