The U.S. government has arrested and deported record numbers of illegal immigrants - nearly 350,000 - in the past year, authorities say. It has also naturalized a record number of new Americans in the same time, more than 1 million. ...more

November 7, 2008

It was only about 10 months since leaving Mabry Elementary as its assistant principal before Gloria Waite was returning to the families and students she had missed. ...more

October 22, 2008

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers, part of a push to put people into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. ...more

October 22, 2008

Pasco County Emergency Services formally unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar addition Tuesday morning, the new Heritage Pines Station No. 39. ...more

October 22, 2008

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers – part of a push to put people back into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. County commissioners today effectively rewrote a proposal by the county's Community Development office for spending $19.5 million in federal housing money aimed at addressing the national housing crisis. The county will add $6 million of its own housing money to increase the federal funding's reach. The proposal original presented to commissioners would have spent $16.3 million on buying and rehabbing run-down homes to make them sellable. Another $4 million was put into helping low- and moderate-income people get mortgages. ...more

October 21, 2008

TAMPA A 48-year-old man was sentenced to 34 years in prison Wednesday after he was found guilty on two counts of armed robbery, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. ...more

October 8, 2008

It's been 10 months but the question lingers: Who killed Dominique Lewis? ...more

October 7, 2008

Who killed Dominique Lewis? ...more

October 7, 2008

His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism - forcing women in his movies to do things that can't be described in a family newspaper. ...more

October 4, 2008

His pornographic persona, Max Hardcore, is all swagger and sadism – forcing women in his movies to do things that can't be described in a family newspaper. But in federal court today, as he faced a federal prison sentence, Paul F. Little trembled and begged a woman for mercy before he was sentenced to prison. ...more

October 3, 2008