Hernando-Pasco Hospice is looking for volunteers. ...more

May 1, 2009

Ahmed Mohamed came to the United States to gather "information about explosives and acquiring components in this country to construct explosives to cause harm within this country," a federal prosecutor asserts in a newly filed court document. Mohamed, an Egyptian student in the United States to attend the University of South Florida, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to providing material support to terrorists by making and posting on the Web site You Tube a video in which he shows how to use a remote-controlled device to detonate a bomb. ...more

November 5, 2008

A Moroccan native here on a student visa will serve three months in prison for shooting a rifle with friends at a local gun range. ...more

July 15, 2008

TAMPA - A Moroccan native here on a student visa will serve three months in prison for shooting a rifle with friends at a local gun range. ...more

July 14, 2008

Elizabeth MacManus was born into the history of the communities she loved and was destined to chronicle. ...more

June 26, 2008

A Tampa Bay area congressman is introducing legislation to beef up security measures for the U.S. student visa program, despite the raft of reforms enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks. ...more

December 5, 2007

TAMPA - A University of South Florida student charged with transporting explosives will not be released on bail, a federal judge ruled today. ...more

October 25, 2007

TAMPA - The parents of Youssef Megahed, one of two University of South Florida students indicted on a federal explosives charge, were called before the federal grand jury Wednesday, said Megahed's brother, Yahia. Samir and Ahlam Megahed were subpoenaed to appear before the federal grand jury investigating the case, but there was no translator for the couple, who speak Arabic, so they did not testify, Yahia Megahed said. He added that he does not know when or whether they are going to testify again. ...more

October 22, 2007

When it comes to property taxes — or just about anything else, for that matter — all any reasonable person wants is fairness. ...more

October 21, 2007

A federal judge has postponed an arraignment for a University of South Florida student accused of trying to help terrorists. ...more

October 17, 2007