Actor Will Smith surprised editors at The Miami Herald when he showed up at their news meeting for a surprise visit. ...more

November 18, 2008

The troubled economy continues to take a bite out the hotel industry in the Tampa area. ...more

October 17, 2008

Police have charged a man with kidnapping and armed robbery, saying he and another man bound and robbed three people at a Howard Johnson hotel last week. ...more

October 14, 2008

An undercover prostitution sting early this morning snared an Army Special Forces major assigned to MacDill Air Force Base, police said. ...more

October 9, 2008

Evel Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law - the late motorcycle daredevil often reveled in them. But even he objected to a 1970s FBI investigation of whether he was involved in a string of beatings. ...more

October 7, 2008

Jurors who have been told to refrain from judging O.J. Simpson on his past heard a recording Thursday of a police employee exulting: "This is great. ... California can't get him. ... Now we'll be able to." ...more

September 19, 2008

A Clearwater police officer received an employee notice after her gun discharged in April as she was entering a hotel room where authorities believed a woman might be in distress, according to Clearwater police. The officer, Keisha Bradley, 35, was also ordered to undergo remedial training, said Elizabeth Daly-Watts, Clearwater's public safety spokeswoman. ...more

July 25, 2008

Working Vacation Always Ends Up Being Work I need to apologize to you and my editor for not submitting my column last week as I had planned, but the best made plans of man oft go awry, and my plans certainly did not happen as I had thought they would. ...more

July 17, 2008

TAMPA - Clyde Jerome Lewis and another man entered a hotel room without permission and forced a woman inside to perform a sex act on each of them while they held a man at gunpoint, Tampa police say. ...more

July 11, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY - Sheriff's detectives say they had arrested two people in connection with several burglaries dating back to August 2007. ...more

July 8, 2008