The federal government is opening its wallet, and Tampa is ready to spend. ...more

June 20, 2009

French police say British actress Lucy Gordon, who appeared in "Spider-Man 3," was found dead in her Paris apartment after apparently committing suicide. ...more

May 21, 2009

Their deaths had never been honored formally until Wednesday. Port Tampa Police Town Marshal Joseph Walker, who was killed Sept. 25, 1915, and West Tampa police Officer Juan Nales, who was killed July 18, 1920, were among those memorialized outside Tampa police headquarters during the annual ceremony that pays tribute to officers killed in the line of duty. ...more

May 7, 2009

The U.S. military says five American soldiers were among seven people killed in a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. ...more

April 10, 2009

Details of the accused woman's past emerged Wednesday through court documents even as police continued to investigate why she took another woman's baby. ...more

March 25, 2009

It was a family reunion fraught with risks involving parents fearful of deportation but more afraid that their 2-month old baby had been abducted. ...more

March 25, 2009

A 2-month-old baby has been reunited with her parents more than 24 hours after a woman impersonating an immigration official took the child from her mother. ...more

March 24, 2009

A reported abduction in North Port on Monday night touched off a multi-agency search that briefly shut down Interstate 75 as authorities scrambled to find a 44-year-old woman, who was eventually located in a local restaurant with her alleged abductor, a 17-year-old boy. ...more

March 17, 2009

Sea life was split Tuesday on who will win the Super Bowl, as manatee Buffett picked the Pittsburgh Steelers by a nose and Shelley the sea turtle decided those same Steelers would get shelled. Today, four-legged football experts from the Tampa Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will take a crack at sniffing out a winner. ...more

January 28, 2009

When Tampa Police Maj. Sophia Teague saw Cub Scout Pack 1952 at an event last year, she was embarrassed for them. The Sulphur Springs children didn't have proper scout uniforms. Thanks to Teague, officers and others in the community raised $805 for uniforms. ...more

January 5, 2009