Careless down the stretch, the Sebring boys basketball team squandered a 10-point fourth-quarter lead during a 58-55 loss to Clewiston in the Bill Jarrett Tip-Off opener on Tuesday night. ...more

November 19, 2009

A motorcyclist died Wednesday night after riding between stopped cars on Interstate 4, losing control of the bike and sliding beneath a moving tow truck, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The motorcyclist, who has not been identified, died at the scene. He was not wearing a helmet, troopers said. ...more

October 15, 2009

A 56-year-old Wesley Chapel man was killed after losing control of his van early Friday near the entrance of Wesley Chapel High School, where his vehicle overturned and ejected the man, who was not wearing a seat belt, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

June 20, 2009

A man driving a motor scooter from his Hillsborough County apartment complex this morning died after losing control of the vehicle and crashing into a brick utility storage building within the complex, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

March 31, 2009

Matt Kenseth won the first two races of the season, but it's been downhill ever since for the former champion, and Sunday's race only added to his decline. ...more

March 30, 2009

A colleague who was in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf war told me that when the war started, people in Riyadh and Jeddah had no idea the war had begun until three days after it started. ...more

March 15, 2009

Often they're from out of state. No close friends yet, no relatives to lend a hand. ...more

January 26, 2009

Polk County deputies arrested a fifth person Saturday in a shooting that left a 12-year-old bystander wounded in the leg. ...more

January 5, 2009

More than two miles above the flat east Pasco landscape, a twin-turbo Otter airplane disgorges two dozen spores. At least that's what they look like from the ground. ...more

December 30, 2008

A Tampa man was critically injured today when he lost control of a car on Interstate 75 and crashed into a tractor-trailer parked on the shoulder, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

November 26, 2008