Town 'N Country area residents are advised to avoid Sweetwater Creek and the area where it flows into Tampa Bay for the next few days, after a large sewage spill Sunday. ...more

October 13, 2008

A 21-year-old Lake Wales man died Sunday morning after losing control of his pickup in Polk County. ...more

October 13, 2008

A man who drove away from his Valrico home Saturday night after a drug deal turned violent was found Sunday morning in a Tampa motel, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

October 5, 2008

Units from Pinellas Suncoast Fire Rescue and the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office responded to an apartment complex in Indian Rocks Beach about 10:30 a.m. Sunday after a resident called 911 and reported the fire. ...more

September 28, 2008

An argument at a house on Doris Drive turned violent Sunday morning when one man was fatally shot and another was seriously injured, Lakeland police said. ...more

September 28, 2008

Forecasters are saying Tampa residents may see something Thursday morning not viewed since May 27: a thermometer reading lower than 70 degrees. ...more

September 23, 2008

How do you measure loss? How do you deal with it? ...more

September 19, 2008

OLIVER, HARDLY I received a nice e-mail from dedicated Stew reader Cindy Vickers of Sebring the other day. ...more

September 17, 2008

A 26-year-old woman called 911 Sunday morning and told the operator that if she had an AK-47 assault rifle, "she would stick it in the 911 operator's mouth and shoot it," according to a Tampa police criminal arrest affidavit. ...more

September 14, 2008

In a city where public meeting space is at a premium, the American Legion building on Church Avenue filled a need and did it for free. ...more

September 11, 2008