The Tampa Port Authority on Tuesday OK'd a $150,000 request by Tampa Historic Streetcar for fiscal 2009-10 by a 4-3 vote. ...more

August 19, 2009

Tampa Port Authority board member Carl Lindell on Tuesday encouraged fellow members to push Congress to ease the five decade Cuba trade embargo, and Tampa Councilwoman Mary Mulhern encouraged the board to visit Cuba as she and Lindell did on their own initiative in July. ...more

August 19, 2009

Tampa Port Authority commissioners on Thursday postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 20, 2009

Tampa Port Authority commissioners today postponed a seemingly inevitable showdown on aggressively marketing Cuban trade after one of them volunteered to "go to Cuba tomorrow" while calling U.S.-Cuba policy "insane." ...more

February 19, 2009

TAMPA -- Hillsborough County Commissioner Rose Ferlita has rejoined the Tampa Port Authority board of commissioners, replacing Brian Blair, who was defeated by Kevin Beckner in his bid for re-election to the commission seat last month. ...more

December 17, 2008

A 17-year-old boy was shot in the upper left thigh Wednesday night. Officers say Terrico Newsome was standing at the entrance to the Jackson Court apartments in Tampa as four people sat inside a 1990 blue Mercury Sable nearby. Two of the vehicle's occupants got out and approached Newsome. ...more

December 11, 2008

After getting into a verbal altercation with his 17-year-old live-in girlfriend, Jessie Antonio Dennard, 33, went on a rampage yesterday, police say, beating and kicking her to the point of unconsciousness and breaking her nose. ...more

June 21, 2008

Ready to cozy up next to former Mayor Dick Greco? As soon as March, Tampa residents and tourists will be able to take a seat next to the former mayor, who will be commemorated with a bronze bench and statue meant to honor him for his two stints as Tampa's mayor. ...more

January 13, 2008

The New England Patriots were unstoppable again, making an unbeaten season seem almost inevitable. ...more

November 19, 2007

LARGO - Robert Lindell was arrested and charged today with sexual battery on a mentally challenged 15-year-old boy, Pinellas County Sherriff's Office reported. ...more

October 11, 2007