TAMPA - She was the city's first black female officer and a mother figure to countless kids in East Tampa. Patricia "Pat" Pierce Coleman died Wednesday. She was 75. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA - Police say they have arrested a man who was walking through a public housing development early today holding a paper bag with half a bottle of gin and 56 rocks of crack cocaine. ...more

June 3, 2008

Essie Mae Reed, 78, is a Tampa treasure. That's how U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, described her recently when Castor stood on the floor of the House of Representatives to honor the community activist as a champion of the poor. ...more

May 24, 2008

It's not Ronnie McLean's fault, Brooksville Housing Authority board members said. ...more

May 21, 2008

There should be a flurry of activity on Nebraska Avenue at the former Central Park Village public housing site. ...more

February 23, 2008

The spiraling growth of Medicare and the high cost of renewing President Bush's tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, housing and anti-poverty programs in the budget blueprint he will hand to lawmakers Monday. ...more

February 3, 2008

Despite protests that at times erupted in violence, the city council voted unanimously Thursday in favor of demolishing about 4,500 public housing units as the city rebuilds from Hurricane Katrina. ...more

December 21, 2007

Meacham Alternative School, a monument to inner city education, began tumbling into rubble Friday, joining the remains of the neighborhood that had sent many of its young people there. ...more

December 1, 2007

Stop overstepping your bounds and get training to make sure you know just where those boundaries are. ...more

November 19, 2007

The nearly 500 families of Central Park Village are gone. The public housing apartments they lived in have been demolished. ...more

November 14, 2007