About 200 children were fatally abused in Florida in 2008, a roughly 20 percent increase from 2007. Unemployment rates and drug use also increased in the state - a factor in many of the deaths, according to a preliminary report. ...more

December 30, 2009

About 200 children were fatally abused in Florida in 2008, a substantial increase from past years as unemployment rates and drug use also increased in the state. ...more

December 29, 2009

The Hillsborough County Tourist Development Council tabled two issues Thursday until its February meeting. ...more

November 17, 2009

TAMPA Police charged a 62-year-old North Tampa woman with creating a public health issue today after an officer saw her emptying raw sewage down her driveway, a preliminary report states. ...more

March 31, 2009

The single-engine plane flown by a nationally known aerobatics pilot and carrying a teen passenger stalled and appeared to fly erratically before crashing into Dade City orange grove March 9. ...more

March 26, 2009

TAMPA -- The first time Evon Cavett dialed 911 early this morning, she complained that her roommate was trying to take away her beer, police said. After the third call, Cavett, 43, was on her way to jail. ...more

March 25, 2009

A city audit of the Lowry Park Zoo confirms that former CEO Lex Salisbury screwed up, and zoo officials are trying to recoup more than $200,000 in supplies and animals he took from the facility. ...more

March 23, 2009

The church organist sang "On Eagle's Wings" as Paul Lee Lopez's family filed into St. Joseph Catholic Church on Monday to mourn the Zephyrhills pilot who was killed March 9 when his plane crashed in a nearby orange grove. ...more

March 17, 2009

pilot Paul Lee Lopez funeral ...more

March 16, 2009

The church organist sang "On Eagle's Wings" as Paul Lee Lopez's family filed into St. Joseph Catholic Church today to mourn the Zephyrhills pilot who was killed March 9 when his plane crashed in a nearby orange grove. ...more

March 16, 2009