As lawmakers focus on divisive policy issues, Democrats' health bills leave gaps WASHINGTON (AP) - For consumers, the health care bills taking final shape in Congress don't rate close to a perfect 10. ...more

November 24, 2009

Over the past three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers. ...more

November 24, 2009

It begins with a sharp nock on the door, followed by shouted commands from Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputies. ...more

March 26, 2009

It happens again and again. A child disappears from a bedroom at night, and another name joins those of Sabrina, Amber, Jessica, Polly, Caylee and many others. ...more

March 1, 2009

Four of the Tampa Bay area's top lawmen, some of whom have handled some of the area's most significant catastrophes or crimes, were sworn in today, or were expected to be. ...more

January 6, 2009

Working under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, a group of Coast Guard law enforcement officers climbed atop a semi-submersible vessel in the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean early Saturday. ...more

September 16, 2008

It was 1959 when a bunch of hard chargers, some of whom once roared down back roads in moonshine cars, rode through the tunnel into the new racetrack "Big Bill" France had paved with asphalt and dreams down in Florida. ...more

February 17, 2008

Two inmates working in a prison field overpowered a female guard Monday and killed her when they ran her over in a stolen pickup as they fled, prison officials said. ...more

September 25, 2007

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office thinks its deputies were justified in fatally shooting a man accused of killing Sgt. Ron Harrison last month, sheriff's Col. Gary Terry said Monday. ...more

September 10, 2007