TAMPA - Additional investigative reports concerning the young woman deputies say was raped outside Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April were released by a court today. ...more

June 24, 2008

TAMPA - A 28-year-old man was found guilty by a federal jury on charges of carjacking, kidnapping, robbery and several firearm violations, the U.S. Attorney's Office said today. ...more

June 19, 2008

How is it that we can treat an innocent victim like this? Someone needs to tell me the answer to this one. ...more

June 8, 2008

A bill to protect seagrasses by levying fines on boaters who carelessly run over the flats, House Bill 7059 is drawing fire from some environmental groups because Rep. Will Kendrick tacked on a provision that says developers may cut channels through some grass beds if they agree to "mitigate" the damage by restoring an equivalent amount of seagrass elsewhere. ...more

June 8, 2008

Detectives found blood on the library driveway, blood on a sidewalk near a set of benches, blood on a signpost outside the entrance and blood on the west wall of the building. ...more

June 7, 2008

TAMPA -- Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives found blood on a library driveway, blood on a sidewalk near a set of benches, blood on a sign post near the entrance and blood on the west wall of the library building. Ultimately, on the evening of April 24, they found blood on the ground near the spot where the family of an 18-year-old senior at East Bay High School found her unconscious and gasping. She had been raped. ...more

June 6, 2008

TAMPA - A teenage rape victim, attacked at Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April, suffered a fracture to her forehead, a small fracture near the tip of her nose and suffered multiple strokes because she had been strangled, according to new court documents released today. ...more

June 6, 2008

make it a crime for boaters to tear up sea grass in a state aquatic preserve. ...more

May 30, 2008

TAMPA – Investigators say the quick actions of two city workers saved a motel from possibly burning to the ground today. The fire broke out at the Alamo Motel, 6110 N. Nebraska Ave., just before 10 a.m., Tampa Fire Rescue Capt. Bill Wade said. The single-story motel is across the street from Tampa Fire Rescue Station No. 7, but it took firefighters eight minutes to respond because personnel were at a supply center in East Tampa, Wade said. ...more

May 27, 2008

A teenager, accused of rape, and his mother, accused of violating probation, appeared in court Tuesday morning before the same judge. ...more

May 21, 2008