Working suicide patrol on the towering Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Leif Cardwell rolled up to find the 58-year-old woman with one leg already draped over the short concrete barrier wall. The license plate on the Ford minivan she drove there said: "HPPY NOW." ...more

May 4, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mel Berman. ...more

February 9, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mel Berman. ...more

January 26, 2008

One man died and a child has been taken to an area hospital after a sport utility vehicle crashed near the north fishing pier by the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida Highway Patrol troopers confirmed ...more

January 20, 2008

A man apparently jumped off the Sunshine Skyway bridge early Saturday, authorities said. ...more

December 29, 2007

From the sound of her angst, you would have thought Tampa City Councilwoman Linda Saul-Sena had just been asked to operate on her own spleen, while balancing on a tight-rope across the spans of the Sunshine Skyway bridge in the middle of a hurricane - blindfolded. ...more

December 18, 2007

Oliver Thomas Bernsdorff exceeded expectations as an adult education teacher for Pinellas County, according to his performance reviews. ...more

December 18, 2007

Investigators have confirmed that a body found Friday in a van near the Sunshine Skyway bridge belonged to a man police think killed his two children, his ex-wife and her partner. ...more

December 17, 2007

The whine of Aaron Howard's power sander breaks the silence among the mossy oaks surrounding his secluded forest workshop by the Myakka River. ...more

November 24, 2007

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Fred Everson. ...more

November 11, 2007