At long last, this season of "Dancing With the Stars" comes to an end beginning at 9 tonight on ABC. ...more

November 24, 2009

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission just released its investigative report into an ill-fated fishing trip where three football players disappeared, an official said. ...more

March 27, 2009

An investigator with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission met today with the family of Corey Smith, one of four men who went out on a fishing trip last week that ended with a boat capsized and Smith and two other men missing. ...more

March 6, 2009

Slow Down For Cranes We live off Cross Creek Boulevard between Bruce B. Downs Blvd. and Morris Bridge Road. In the last month we have seen three dead sandhill cranes along the road. ...more

January 17, 2009

The parents of a Tampa teenager who died in North Carolina during a fraternity's "Hell Week" plan to file a civil lawsuit against the Theta Chi fraternity, the students involved in the incident and Lenoir-Rhyne University, according to the family's attorneys. ...more

January 15, 2009

The woman's story sounded like a nightmare: raped during 2007's Gasparilla festivities, then jailed once police discovered she was wanted on an outstanding warrant. ...more

January 15, 2009

The parents of a Tampa teenager who died in North Carolina during "Hell Week" plan to file a civil lawsuit against the Theta Chi fraternity, the students involved in the incident and Lenoir-Rhyne University, according to the family's attorneys. ...more

January 14, 2009

TAMPA -- After more than a year of investigation, Tampa police can't find any evidence that a woman who reported she was raped during 2007's Gasparilla festivities was attacked, a report states. Police released the 52-page report today in response to a public records request. ...more

January 14, 2009

MULBERRY The handler of police canine Sam Diesel had kept the German shepherd in a portable kennel at the Mulberry Police Department in the weeks before the dog died inside a patrol car with faulty air conditioning, according to an investigative report released Tuesday by the agency. ...more

August 5, 2008

In the hours before a young woman was raped and beaten outside Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April, library staff members saw the 16-year-old suspect spend hours playing video games in the children's section and hanging out on the front benches outside after the library closed for the night. ...more

June 25, 2008