British performer Tricky's new album pays tribute to an area most people try to avoid. ...more

March 5, 2009

Holy jurisprudence. Ybor City's Batman is getting his mask back. Hillsborough County Judge John Conrad on Monday dismissed two misdemeanor charges Tampa police lodged against Walsh Ian Nichols when he refused orders to take off his Batman mask. ...more

February 17, 2009

Holy jurisprudence. Ybor City's Batman is getting his mask back. Hillsborough County Judge John Conrad today dismissed two misdemeanor charges Tampa police lodged against Walsh Ian Nichols when he refused orders to take off his Batman mask. ...more

February 16, 2009

Longtime WFLA, News Channel 8, reporter Rod Challenger is retiring today after 30 years at the NBC affiliate. ...more

February 13, 2009

Batman has had a slew of enemies over the years - The Joker, The Riddler, Catwoman - but in Ybor City last year, he added a new nemesis: Tampa police. ...more

January 25, 2009

Batman has had a slew of enemies over the years – The Joker, The Riddler, Catwoman – but in Ybor City last year, he added a new nemesis: Tampa police. Ybor City's version of the Caped Crusader –his real name is Walsh Ian Nichols – was sitting on a curb eating sushi on Oct. 21 when an officer arrested him for wearing a mask on a public street. Nichols, 21, failed to use a batarang or fancy equipment to escape the officer. Now he is fighting back in court. His lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss, which will be heard next month. ...more

January 23, 2009

A neo-Nazi group has joined the state's Adopt-A-Highway volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan. ...more

January 22, 2009

Three Pasco County schools had to do some quick cleaning up Friday morning after graffiti was found on walls, sidewalks, stop signs and elsewhere. ...more

December 6, 2008

A judge ruled Thursday that a man suspected of fatally shooting his friend in the face is mentally incompetent to stand trial. ...more

November 21, 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