Officers responding to a report of shots fired near Ybor City on Monday morning arrested two men in a stolen car with a gun and crack cocaine, police said. ...more

February 18, 2008

TAMPA - Officers responding to a report of shots fired near Ybor City this morning arrested two men in a stolen car with a gun and crack cocaine, police said. ...more

February 18, 2008

SARASOTA - Police have identified a woman they say was stabbed to death by a man who knew her well on Monday night. ...more

February 5, 2008

This week the TV news showed us images of George Bush, president of the United States and supposed leader of the free world, carrying a Saudi sword while dancing with a member of the Saudi royal family. For me, this ultimate indignity on the part of our president was reminiscent of a drunken Boris Yeltsin, leader of a failed Soviet Union playing "would you like to lead a band ?" Doubtless George, wearing his now famous smirk, saw no loss of dignity in playing the court jester for his Arab friends, perhaps to win them over to his pathetic plea for OPEC to sell more oil to assist the U.S. economy, one of their biggest customers as Bush reminded them. Their curt response was they will increase their sales when the market warrants it, thereby putting Bush in his place and inferentially reminding him that the OPEC cartel does not exist to do the U.S. favors. Its ability to squeeze the U.S. in a time of economic crisis, despite Bush's supposed generosity in approving a large sale of sophisticated arms to Saudi Arabia, is a blunt reminder of who is in the economically dominant position, in U.S.- Saudi relations. Way to go George! ...more

January 20, 2008

TAMPA - Two men have been arrested and a third is wanted on warrants after police found a stash of cocaine and marijuana in a Central Tampa home, according to arrest reports. ...more

January 15, 2008

Police have arrested a teen in connection with the death of a 16-year-old boy in December and are searching for two others involved, the Bartow Police Department said. ...more

January 7, 2008

In the U.S. Navy I was a radarman. We supplanted those men who used to stand on the wings of the bridge, or in the crow's nest, scanning the horizon, looking for reefs or icebergs or other things, which might endanger the ship. To some extent, I still see myself as performing that function, being alert to those things which might endanger our country and to report those things when they are observed. On occasion I am challenged by people who say "prove to me that you know what a reef or an iceberg looks like. I haven't been looking but you must prove it to me nevertheless." ...more

January 2, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies are looking for a 29-year-old man who they say abducted his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint at about 5 p.m. today from her uncle's home. ...more

December 31, 2007