Lex Salisbury, president and CEO of Lowry Park Zoo, defended his tenure with the zoo against a critical city audit and said he will answer questions at a special zoo board meeting Thursday. ...more

December 15, 2008

TAMPA Three teenagers are accused of robbing a Pizza Hut deliveryman at gunpoint, then ordering him to kneel in a closet while facing the wall, police said. Victor Maurice Tanner Jr., 19, Malcolm Rashad Hill, 19, and Frederick Wallace Reddick, 18, were held without bail today at the Orient Road Jail. Tampa police arrested them Wednesday on felony charges of armed robbery and kidnapping, records show. ...more

December 4, 2008

A federal judge has granted a motion by attorneys for John "Junior" Gotti to transfer his racketeering case to New York, saying allowing the case to proceed in Florida "stands athwart the manifest interests of justice." ...more

December 3, 2008

The motorcycle in a Plant City Police Department demonstration Nov. 18 that injured two spectators, the police chief and the driver was going 37 mph when it skidded out of control, according to a report on the accident. ...more

December 2, 2008

The U.S. Geological Survey says a significant earthquake has jolted the ocean floor near Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands. ...more

November 2, 2008

An undercover prostitution sting early this morning snared an Army Special Forces major assigned to MacDill Air Force Base, police said. ...more

October 9, 2008

A man who accused his neighbor of causing a woman's arrest wound up begging the same neighbor not to have him arrested for burglary, police said. The odd chain of events began about 9:43 p.m. Wednesday in an apartment building at 7211 N. 10th St., where Tampa police said Narada Randall confronted neighbor Stanley Mullen about the arrest of Randall's girlfriend. ...more

October 2, 2008

Police arrested an 18-year-old Tampa man late Monday after the vehicle he was driving struck a police car on the passenger side, according to a report. ...more

September 17, 2008

Police used a Taser on a man Monday night, causing him to drop an unloaded pistol, a preliminary report states. Jeffrey L. Parker, 32, of 7816 N. Cortez St., told Tampa police he was trying to kill himself while fleeing officers and had several rounds of ammunition, the report states. ...more

September 16, 2008

A Hillsborough County detention deputy has arrested and charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence, records show. ...more

September 16, 2008