Working suicide patrol on the towering Sunshine Skyway Bridge, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Leif Cardwell rolled up to find the 58-year-old woman with one leg already draped over the short concrete barrier wall. The license plate on the Ford minivan she drove there said: "HPPY NOW." ...more

May 4, 2008

Two patas monkeys that escaped from a wildlife preserve have been captured. ...more

May 3, 2008

TAMPA - Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Steve White, who was previously in a relationship with rape suspect Kendrick Morris' mother, denied today in a letter from his attorney that he ever was married to the woman. ...more

May 2, 2008

TAMPA - Two of the escaped patas monkeys that escaped from a wildlife preserve in April have been captured. ...more

May 2, 2008

Brenda Dostal says she felt like a failure as a mother. The 38-year-old Wesley Chapel mom was dealing with a 5-year-old terror. Son Zachary's kicking and clawing outbursts of anger left her with bloody scratches and frazzled nerves. ...more

February 6, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - A Pine View School teacher was arrested Thursday on charges he sexually battered a 17-year-old student. ...more

December 28, 2007

The medical group behind the 1-800-ASK-GARY ad campaign is cutting back its staff in Florida, because a change in the state's auto insurance law threatens to cut its revenue. ...more

November 22, 2007

Hernando County sheriff's deputies are looking for a suspect who attempted to kidnap a woman in the parking lot at a Walgreens, 11180 Spring Hill Drive, in Spring Hill. ...more

November 19, 2007

A 38-year-old community tradition continues with Nativity Catholic Church and School's annual Novemberfest, which is set for Wednesday through Sunday and is expected to draw 150,000 people with food, entertainment, games and a giant midway. ...more

November 13, 2007

At 91, Olivia Pitts Jackson was the boarding home's oldest resident. She arrived Feb. 27. That day, the Tampa Housing Authority evicted her and her husband from public housing. John Jackson, 47 - "God told us to marry," she says - hadn't responded to the agency's annual review to see whether they still qualified for public housing. So they had to go. ...more

November 2, 2007