Fifty years ago Sunday, 216 people filed into the first service of St. Lawrence Catholic Church and fell far short of filling the Hillsborough High School auditorium. ...more

February 9, 2009

Liduvina "Lucy" Nieves sat on a new sofa in her new house Friday, overwhelmed and nearly speechless. ...more

February 4, 2009

Liduvina "Lucy" Nieves sat on a new sofa in her new house Friday morning, overwhelmed and nearly speechless. ...more

January 31, 2009

Liduvina "Lucy" Nieves sat on a new sofa in her new house this morning, overwhelmed and nearly speechless. "The change is incredible," said Nieves, 66, who has lived on Union Street for 30 years. Nieves' home was one of 20 in her neighborhood rehabilitated and completed today as part of Kickoff to Rebuild, a project sponsored by the nonprofit Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay and the National Football League. ...more

January 30, 2009

Hundreds attended the funeral this morning of a popular Plant High School senior who was killed in wreck during the weekend. ...more

November 19, 2008

The Rev. Joel M. Kovanis has served a number of Catholic parishes since becoming a priest in 1994, but none were quite like Prince of Peace, the one he serves now. ...more

July 30, 2008

A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work. ...more

October 15, 2007