A Tampa man trying to steal money from a South Tampa Hess station backed away from the store after an employee took out an Asp tactical baton and expanded it Sunday morning, Tampa police say. ...more

March 30, 2009

Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school provided a warning of the kind of threat that still hangs over them in the days ahead. ...more

March 29, 2009

The woman who died in a fire Sunday morning in South Tampa has been identified as 48-year-old Katherine Alm, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. ...more

March 23, 2009

The single-engine turboprop airplane that crashed just short of Butte airport jerked to the left before nose-diving into a cemetery, killing all 14 people aboard, a witness said Monday. ...more

March 23, 2009

With flames licking at his back, Anthony Grace leaned out a second-story apartment window, a toddler slipping from his grip, and had little choice but to let the girl go and hope her uncle would catch her. ...more

March 23, 2009

Upset that a woman declined to have sex with him, a 56-year-old Tampa man stabbed her in the upper torso, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Valentin Sanchez on Sunday morning at 14102 N. 20th St. ...more

March 9, 2009

A Riverview man tried strangling his girlfriend with a telephone cord, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

March 9, 2009

Without Walls International Church escaped the specter of foreclosure after its lender agreed to drop demands for control of its books, tapes and other intellectual property, Pastor Randy White said Sunday. ...more

March 9, 2009

Volusia County officials say two teen girls were sunbathing when they were run over by a pickup truck on the beach. ...more

March 8, 2009

A 27-year-old St. Petersburg man was arrested Sunday morning, accused of attacking his girlfriend and his godsister at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, according to criminal arrest affidavits. ...more

March 2, 2009