Jon Whispel wears his regrets on his arms, tattooed in a skull and two masks. The grinning skull sits high enough on his bicep to hide beneath the short sleeves of his blue prison shirt. He bought the tattoo in Ybor City a decade ago today with money from a woman he had helped kill hours earlier. ...more

June 27, 2008

Jon Whispel wears his regrets on his arms, tattooed in a skull and two masks. ...more

June 26, 2008

John Tortorella's departure might have saddened Tampa Bay Lightning fans but at least they won't have to scramble for change when they park under the Selmon Crosstown Expressway next season. ...more

June 16, 2008

SEBRING — While most of the eight kids eased into the new YMCA swimming pool Tuesday, 9-year-old Dalton Hiller splashed everyone else when he hit a perfect cannonball. Everyone laughed, and then practice began. Hiller and the other students, 6 to 14 years old, were preparing for the July 12 Heartland Triathlon. Depending on age, the kids will swim either 100 or 200 yards, bike three or six miles and run either half a mile or a full mile. Hiller is a Cracker Trail Elementary student and said he lifts weights at home. He hopes to improve on last year's 31st place he earned during the inaugural kids event – maybe even enough to win this time. ...more

June 12, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — One tipster told police Denise Lee's death was a paid hit job. Others called police proclaiming psychic powers to describe what had happened to Lee or where to find her. Still others insisted they had details about Michael King's relationship to Lee. All of them were wrong. ...more

June 11, 2008

Authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile on Friday after a snowcapped volcano considered dormant for thousands of years erupted, sending minor earthquakes rippling through the region. ...more

May 3, 2008

TAMPA - Crews with the state's Department of Forestry are keeping watch over a 15-acre brush fire that started Sunday night south of Polk City. ...more

February 18, 2008

Two employees of Charlotte County's 911 call center are being punished after an internal investigation into the handling of a call concerning a North Port woman who was later found dead, Sheriff John Davenport announced today. ...more

February 15, 2008

A state lab has matched Michael Lee King's DNA to DNA found on the body of Denise Lee, according to documents filed with the courts. ...more

February 13, 2008

Determined residents of this retirement community packed Community Hall on Tuesday to make their case why South Bay Hospital should not be allowed to move six miles north to Big Bend Road in Riverview. ...more

October 31, 2007