New car buyers have an extra incentive to ink a deal before the stroke of midnight Thursday. ...more

December 30, 2009

Many more families are homeless this year because of the economy, and a few local charities and businesses are teaming up to help them out. ...more

December 12, 2009

China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest market for automobiles, the first time any other country has bought more vehicles than the nation that produced Henry Ford, the Cadillac and minivan. ...more

December 11, 2009

Guests at a late-night house party got more than they bargained for when a van drove by and a man reportedly opened fire. ...more

November 17, 2009

A pedestrian who died Wednesday evening when he was struck crossing Gulf to Bay Boulevard has been identified. ...more

October 29, 2009

Two suspects were arrested today in a New Tampa home burglary in which an intruder used a pillowcase from a sleeping child's bed and filled it with stolen goods. Police arrested James Wilson Maymi, 29, and Yesenia M. Sanchez, 22, both of 5606 Josephine Court, Apt. D. Police were still searching for Luis R. Rivera, 19, whose role in the case was unclear. ...more

October 16, 2009

Three people, including a 17-year-old who was five months pregnant and her 11-month-old daughter, were killed when the car they were in was struck on a rural stretch of U.S. 27 in Davenport on Tuesday evening. The unborn child also did not survive, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. The driver of the car, William Coe, 21, of Haines City, is in Lakeland Regional Medical Center in stable condition. No one in the car was wearing a seat belt or restrained, the sheriff's office said. ...more

September 16, 2009

One Highlands County man's Labor Day weekend was memorable for all the wrong reasons after being the victim of armed robbery on Sunday. ...more

September 9, 2009

A New York City woman says her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle. ...more

June 5, 2009

Drivers are urged to avoid the intersection of 46th Avenue and 28th Street in Lealman as firefighters battle a blaze at a commercial building. ...more

March 27, 2009