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

After an unusually large number of spring breakers swarmed the small residential community of Sunset Beach this year, Treasure Island officials drew up an emergency ordinance prohibiting alcohol on the beach there. ...more

March 26, 2009

A two-day neighborhood sweep by Tampa code enforcement inspectors produced more than 300 new cases involving more than 500 violations. ...more

February 25, 2009

A two-day sweep by Tampa code enforcement inspectors produced more than 300 new cases involving more than 500 violations in the V.M Ybor neighborhood. ...more

February 20, 2009

8:26 a.m.: You may have to wait in line to vote today, but there is one thing you won't have to worry about in St. Petersburg: parking tickets. ...more

November 4, 2008

In the hours before Election Day, as inevitable as winter, comes an onslaught of dirty tricks - confusing e-mails, disturbing phone calls and insinuating fliers left on doorsteps during the night. ...more

November 2, 2008

It was one of those charity breakfasts where 500 people show up at the same time to park in the convention center's parking garage. Next to the machine that dispenses parking tickets at the garage entrance was a sign telling you to take a ticket and then proceed and pay inside. ...more

May 9, 2008

Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. ...more

February 9, 2008

Hillsborough County is considering joining the handful of Florida communities that use video cameras to nab drivers who blow through red lights. ...more

January 12, 2008

Regarding "Ybor City Parking Meter-Free For Month" (Metro, Nov. 30): Twenty-one thousand dollars in revenue? That's what the city is making a month on parking in Ybor? ...more

December 3, 2007