Authorities were searching Thursday for two men who escaped from a North Florida jail and were suspected of killing the 66-year-old step-grandmother of one of them and ditching her car hundreds of miles away in Kentucky. ...more

April 17, 2009

Joe Balfour of Lutz has spent a lifetime buying collectibles and antiques. Little did he know his love of old-fashioned bread boxes and butter churns would one day help put food on the table. ...more

March 25, 2009

A pre-dawn shooting in a field outside Zephyrhills left one man wounded and another under arrest for attempted murder, and created a puzzle for authorities, who say Thursday's victim is a suspect in a strangely similar incident that occurred Monday. ...more

March 6, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Deep discounts on everything from sweaters to TVs drove shoppers out of hibernation for the Thanksgiving weekend, but the buying was tempered and sales for the traditional start of the holiday season appear at best in line with stores' low expectations. ...more

November 30, 2008

Few albums have had the initial impact on me as did R.E.M.'s 1983 debut full-length, "Murmur." By the time the needle had reached the first chorus of "Radio Free Europe," I knew I was hearing music I had waited for most of my life. ...more

November 20, 2008

6:30 a.m.: In the gray of pre-dawn in Lutz, two women stood in line to vote in a presidential election for the first time in their lives -- one because she was finally old enough, the other because she became a U.S. citizen in June. They were separated by about a dozen other voters at the First United Methodist Church. At 6:30 a.m., the line was growing about two to four people a minute. ...more

November 4, 2008

It was the kind of game they've won all season. It was the kind of game that made you believe in their miracle. And then they lost. ...more

October 26, 2008

The Lightning touched down at Tampa International Airport in the early pre-dawn hours Monday morning, returning home from a 10-day, cross-continent trip. ...more

October 8, 2008

Working under the cover of pre-dawn darkness, a group of Coast Guard law enforcement officers climbed atop a semi-submersible vessel in the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean early Saturday. ...more

September 16, 2008

Working as part of a Tampa-based investigation, the Coast Guard this weekend seized a semi-submarine with 7 tons of cocaine aboard about 350 miles west of Guatemala in the eastern Pacific Ocean, officials said. ...more

September 15, 2008