TAMPA – Tampa Police Department dive team members rescued a manatee this morning after it became stranded in a small lagoon near the 22nd Street Causeway. ...more

May 7, 2008

The search for a pilot near the coast of Iceland is over, but his family's pursuit of closure may continue for a while. ...more

February 24, 2008

TAMPA - The Air Force today identified a Tampa man, 1st Lt. Ali Jivanjee, as the pilot who died of injuries from the collision of two F-15 fighter jets over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday. ...more

February 22, 2008

Eglin Air Force Base halted training flights for its F-15 pilots Thursday and investigators searched for the cause of a midair crash that killed one pilot and downed two jets over the Gulf of Mexico a day earlier. ...more

February 21, 2008

The Air Force says one of the two pilots whose fighter jets crashed into the Gulf of Mexico has died. The other pilot is in good condition. ...more

February 21, 2008

TAMPA - Nina was missing since Friday. Somehow this 10-pound, black-and-white cat was able to escape its carrier and hide in Tampa International Airport. ...more

February 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Two people were seriously hurt when a pickup truck and a car collided head-on just after 5 p.m. today, according to St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue. ...more

February 13, 2008

BRADENTON – Police and wildlife rescue workers responded to a call Monday evening about a python discovered in a recently rented home in the 1600 block of 18th Avenue Drive West. ...more

February 12, 2008

Crews on Saturday found another body in the remnants of a sugar refinery plant devastated late Thursday by an explosion and fire, raising the death toll to five, with three others still missing, officials said. ...more

February 10, 2008

The searchers had gone over the field once. It seemed unlikely that anything else would turn up. It was dark and rainy. Amid the awesome wreckage of the tornado that had just passed they'd found three dead. Some bodies had been flung hundreds of feet from their homes, landing in tangles of branches and across the roadway. ...more

February 7, 2008