It was a family reunion fraught with risks involving parents fearful of deportation but more afraid that their 2-month old baby had been abducted. ...more

March 25, 2009

They prey on motorists who leave their cars unlocked while they run in to a day care or school for just a couple of minutes. ...more

December 17, 2008

A woman repeatedly raped after friends left her at a South Tampa bar in 2005 admitted today from the witness stand that details of the night are still sketchy. ...more

December 15, 2008

They prey on motorists who leave their cars unlocked while they run in to a day care or school for just a couple of minutes. But that's all it takes to open the door and swipe a purse, or anything else of value, said Pasco County Sheriff's Office spokesman Kevin Doll. ...more

December 15, 2008

Just down the road from the mobile home where the body of a 21-year-old still lay late Thursday morning, more than a dozen relatives and friends gathered beyond the yellow crime scene tape waiting for answers, looking for comfort and processing what had happened. ...more

October 17, 2008

Even on a day when the financial world was collapsing, he looked every bit the part of the successful financier as he stood before the crowd of Tampa business men and women. ...more

October 1, 2008

Chip and Jeanine Johnson puttered around their comfortable home in Waterchase one recent morning, surrounded by the joyful activities of their three children and assorted friends and relatives. ...more

August 27, 2008

I first started drinking coffee when I was in college, not because I needed the caffeine, but because I was the young tagalong in a group of rich, motorcycle-riding, super-cool, geeky Asians. Please. Disengage your visual cortex and do not try to picture that in your mind. Just take my word for it that they were all that AND got honors marks. ...more

July 8, 2008

The authenticity inside Brooksville's newest Native American artifacts store is as palpable as the pungent aroma of incense that hits you as soon as you walk through the door. ...more

January 6, 2008