The Tampa City Council today gave a tentative nod to Mayor Pam Iorio's plan to use $13.6 million in federal funding to buy foreclosed and abandoned homes -- but not without criticizing the administration for keeping the council out of the loop. ...more

November 20, 2008

City officials unveiled plans Thursday to buy more than 100 foreclosed and abandoned homes in neighborhoods hardest hit by the mortgage crisis. ...more

November 14, 2008

If I were anointed Florida's Minister of Culture, I would order glorious monuments to the exalted chicken. Florida may be hopelessly fragmented, but almost everyone - rich and poor, black and white, rural and urban - loves perfectly cooked fried chicken. ...more

October 13, 2008

Big things are scheduled for South Shore residents the weekend of Oct. 11-12. ...more

September 24, 2008

When Tampa police Officers Julio Martinez and Michele Deschler tried helping a man inside a burning house Monday morning, he pointed a shotgun at them, authorities said. ...more

September 23, 2008

One person is injured and another with a gun is with police at the scene of a small fire in the 100 block of West Sligh Avenue, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. ...more

September 22, 2008

Reginald Lee Mitchell set an Aug. 29 fire that caused $35,000 in damage to an occupied Tampa home, Tampa Fire Rescue says. ...more

September 9, 2008

Reginald Lee Mitchell set an Aug. 29 fire that caused $35,000 damage to an occupied Tampa home, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. Investigators arrested Mitchell on Sunday afternoon. He was charged with first-degree arson. ...more

September 8, 2008

Few people attended a series of public meetings this year about the city's $19 million sewer replacement project on 12th Street stretching from Sulphur Springs to East Tampa. ...more

September 3, 2008

Police Chief Stephen Hogue stood on the wraparound porch of a Suwanee Heights house Wednesday night and delivered good news to a crowd gathered on the front lawn. ...more

August 28, 2008