Three Manatee High School students who attacked a girl are facing charges after they bragged about giving her a concussion and broken blood vessels on the Internet, police said. ...more

October 22, 2007

TAMPA - Digging resumed behind a South Tampa house this morning for evidence in a Temple Terrace woman's disappearance roughly two years ago. Temple Terrace police obtained a search warrant Wednesday for the house at 3908 W. Vasconia St. in connection with the disappearance of Sandra Hamby Prince ...more

October 22, 2007

After nearly a year in the interim position, Eric Keaton has been named Pasco County's public communications manager. ...more

October 20, 2007

TAMPA - Three dirty toddlers in diapers were found this morning wandering on Himes Avenue without any adults, police and rescue spokesmen said.. ...more

October 18, 2007

TAMPA - Two backhoes tore up the yard at a South Tampa home Wednesday as investigators looked for evidence in the disappearance of a Temple Terrace woman nearly two years ago. ...more

October 18, 2007

SARASOTA - The driver of a semitrailer that caused a fatal crash Monday on Interstate 75 likely will not face criminal charges, since he had no warning that traffic would be stopped for a construction project, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

October 2, 2007

Florida's sex predator penalties became among the nation's toughest Monday as a new law took effect tripling maximum sentences to 15 years for solicitation and child pornography. ...more

October 2, 2007

PALM HARBOR - The body of 46-year-old Daniel Propes, the second of two anglers who went missing Sunday morning, was found at 3:50 p.m. by deputies in Lake Tarpon, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

October 1, 2007

WESTCHASE - A teenage driver fatally struck a man today who was riding a motorbike along Countryway Boulevard, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Sixteen-year-old John Holland Jr., a 10th-grader at Alonso High School, was driving a car north on the roadway when he lost control for unknown reasons, veering into the southbound lane and striking the man who was headed south on a scooter or moped, a sheriff's report states. Holland's vehicle then went off the road into a pond, where he and his 16-year-old passenger, Trevor Ekovich, also a 10th-grader at Alonso High School, were able to escape unharmed, the report states. The driver of the motor bike, who died at the scene, was not identified today because deputies were trying to contact next of kin. ...more

September 26, 2007