With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in a bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 8, 2008

TAMPA - With sirens wailing and a tornado approaching, 19-year-old Claire Elmblad of Wesley Chapel began praying out loud. Her fellow Union University dormitory roommates, all hunkered down in the cramped bathtub and surrounded by blackness, did the same. ...more

February 7, 2008

TAMPA - Law enforcement officers seized 240 grams of cocaine and 93 grams of heroin at a Tampa home Tuesday after a two-week investigation, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

January 30, 2008

As college dorm life goes, this place is posh: deluxe kitchen, washer and dryer, inclusive cable access and high-speed Internet. While such amenities are proliferating at apartments near four-year universities, you typically won't find them at a community college. In that sense, developers say, Hillsborough Community College is a pioneer. ...more

January 3, 2008

In the months since he received that dreadful call at work on a late Sunday afternoon in August, Mickey Andrews has plowed forward the only way he knows how. ...more

December 30, 2007

LAKE PLACID — When a Lake Placid man came home at 7:40 p.m. Friday, he found his roommates being held at gunpoint by three robbers, one with a pistol, the other with a sawed-off shotgun. A lookout was outside. The man took off, said sheriff's Lt. Kenny Johnson, and so did the other occupants of No. 8 Parkdale Drive. When they returned, they discovered the man's wallet was missing, along with cash and other items. ...more

December 23, 2007

TAMPA - An argument about a Tampa man's unpaid rent led him to attack his roommates with a large kitchen knife, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

December 10, 2007

With an arrest warrant in hand, two detectives are on their way to pick up 23-year-old Joshua Wilkins, accusing him of grand theft of a car rented by a Tampa homicide victim, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies say. ...more

December 10, 2007

The 1998 Honda Accord rented by Tampa homicide victim Wesley Aaron Bonham was recovered early this morning in Texas, Hillsborough deputies say. ...more

December 9, 2007

Deputies are trying to find out who killed a man found dead late Friday inside an apartment complex located near the University of South Florida campus. The identity of the man, thought to be 28-years-old, has not been released, said Debbie Carter, a Hillsborough sheriff's spokeswoman. ...more

December 8, 2007