TAMPA – A 16-year-old Sickles High School sophomore died Thursday in a fire that started in her bedroom in the Country Place subdivision in Carrollwood. ...more

May 8, 2008

When River Ridge High School lost four students to traffic accidents in 2006, members of Future Business Leaders of America decided to do something to prevent future tragedies. ...more

February 21, 2008

A deputy and her dog receive the credit for the happy ending in the case of a missing 12-year-old boy who moved from Belize to Lakeland two weeks ago. ...more

February 15, 2008

A PBS documentary explores a dark chapter in modern American medicine. ...more

January 21, 2008

I hope that each of you had a wonderful holiday, whether that be Hanukkah or Christmas or Kwanzaa. I'm still in Boca Raton at my sister Karin's house. Thanks to the modern miracle of e-mail, I can write my column from anywhere in the world, provided I make my deadline. I got some wonderful gifts myself, including new cologne, the latest Eagles album, an iTunes gift card, and a Spiderman doll. Hey, don't diss Spiderman or I may have to hurt you. My brother and I went to Wally World on Friday to spend the $50 gift card I got. What a mob scene. I picked up another game for my new Nintendo Wii. Now we can play billiards, ping pong, the shooting gallery, and laser hockey. There's even a fishing game, which is really weird. I can't fathom fishing in real life, let alone doing it virtually. ...more

December 31, 2007

Holiday travelers to Tampa International Airport encountered only a handful of delays Monday and mostly during the morning after winter storms blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast over the weekend. ...more

December 25, 2007

Chilling surveillance images released Friday show a shaggy haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, and his hand-scrawled suicide note offers compassion for his friends and only contempt for his victims. ...more

December 8, 2007

The young man who killed eight people and committed suicide in a shooting rampage at a department store spent four years in a series of treatment centers, group homes and foster care after threatening to kill his stepmother in 2002. ...more

December 7, 2007

About noon Monday, members of the Pasco County Sheriff's Office dive team plunged into a small pond near the entrance to Colony Lakes Estates, off State Road 52. ...more

November 20, 2007

As the search for a missing young mother continues, divers are expected this week to explore the lake in her Colony Lakes Estates subdivision. ...more

November 19, 2007