Nine-dollar-a-slice cheesecake at taxpayer expense angered local lawmakers and apparently isn't sitting too well with the state, either. ...more

November 27, 2009

Nine-dollar-a-slice cheesecake at taxpayer expense angered local lawmakers and it apparently isn't sitting too well with the state, either. ...more

November 25, 2009

Florida's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October 2009 is 11.2 percent, according to the Agency for Workforce Innovation. ...more

November 22, 2009

Florida's unemployment rate increased slightly to 11.2 percent in October, while the Tampa Bay area's rate decreased slightly to 11.7 percent, according to figures released Friday. ...more

November 21, 2009

The public is invited to ask questions about the 2009-10 county budget during a 6:30 p.m. workshop Thursday, June 18, at Lorenzo Hamilton Community Center (Kennedy Park), 899 Kennedy Blvd. in Brooksville ...more

June 17, 2009

TAMPA -- Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man officers found on the sidewalk of East Columbus Drive near North 22nd Street early this morning. ...more

May 7, 2009

The family of Kevin Bryant Jr. sat in tense, restrained silence, just feet from Eli Alvarez. ...more

February 20, 2009

The family of Kevin Bryant Jr. sat in tense, restrained silence, just feet from Eli Alvarez. Alvarez's decision to drink and drive ended 8-year-old Kevin's life on May 10, 2007. The boy's family came to court Thursday to watch Alvarez plead no contest to DUI-manslaughter in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence. ...more

February 19, 2009

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction of Scott Schweickert for conspiring with Steven Lorenzo to drug and torture two men who died in Lorenzo's Seminole Heights home. The court also upheld Schweickert's conviction for drugging one of the men, Michael Wachholtz, with the intent to commit a crime of violence. ...more

October 31, 2008

An argument about a $20 loan led a Lakeland man to strike a person four times on the right leg with a piece of steel rebar, Tampa police say. Officers arrested Lorenzo Adams on Sunday following the 5 a.m. attack Friday in the 1600 block of North Marion Street. ...more

October 27, 2008