LAND O' LAKES - A man accused of kidnapping and assaulting a woman in Tampa last month picked up a related sexual battery charge in Pasco County this week. ...more

October 17, 2008

Police have charged a man with kidnapping and armed robbery, saying he and another man bound and robbed three people at a Howard Johnson hotel last week. ...more

October 14, 2008

Authorities say a Port St. Lucie man bound a woman's hands and taped her mouth shut, claiming he only wanted to make her listen. ...more

October 14, 2008

Ivan Edwards spotted a grey and white lump in his back yard Thursday morning and figured it to be a piece of driftwood or palm tree coconut. ...more

September 26, 2008

You can try to think about the bad times but it all just seems funny now. The years and years of losing simply set the stage for a story that has been tremendous and isn't finished yet. ...more

September 21, 2008

ST. PETE BEACH - The idea of having a stroke never crossed my mind two years ago, as I hurried to put away supplies in my new dream-come-true coffee shop. ...more

September 21, 2008

As much as the city council has lamented the fiasco that the effort to conceal City Hall's giant generator has become, they sure do have fun discussing it. ...more

September 19, 2008

A 17-year-old girl is recovering from a skull fracture today after she escaped from the trunk of a moving vehicle on Friday, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 14, 2008

So my Beautiful and Talented Wife tries to print a document for her Healthy Together campaign, a local nonprofit program aimed at promoting healthy choices for Tampans, and her printer refuses to print. She gets an error message on her screen, "Cannot print." Being significantly smarter and techno-savvy than the average bear, my BTW logs off on her iMac, powers up her linked PC, and checks again on the printer. This is where it gets funny. Not just amusing, but really funny in a kind of scary way. ...more

September 2, 2008

DUNEDIN - There promises to be a stylish potpourri of surprises this year at the Dunedin Fine Art Center's Wearable Art Fashion Show 4. The exhibition has become renowned for spotlighting creations of trendy area fashion designers. Wearable Art 4, as the show's 2008 edition is called, will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16, with a pre-runway party. It will be present at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, in Highlander Park, 1143 Michigan Blvd. ...more

July 26, 2008