The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is investigating 13 to 20 car break-ins that occurred overnight in a residential neighborhood in Madeira Beach, authorities said. There also might have been a few additional car burglaries in nearby Indian Shores. ...more

February 23, 2009

The opening of spring training is always the time to express unbridled enthusiasm about what might lie ahead in the coming season, and this time around no one is raising any eyebrows when the Rays talk about aiming high. ...more

February 13, 2009

The Rays already are a hot ticket on the Grapefruit League circuit. ...more

January 16, 2009

'Borderline Treason' Regarding "A Capitol Crime" (Other Views, Dec. 4): The column by Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation about the Capitol Visitor Center is both enlightening and discouraging. ...more

December 9, 2008

Residents can weigh in on a proposed bicycle and pedestrian trail connector along Gandy Boulevard. ...more

October 22, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti has left a New York prison and should arrive in Tampa around Tuesday, said his attorney, Charles Carnesi. Gotti is traveling via U.S. Marshals Service's "Con Air" system, Carnesi said. ...more

August 15, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti has left a New York prison and should arrive in Tampa around Tuesday, according to his attorney, Charles Carnesi. Gotti is traveling via U.S. Marshal's "Con Air" service, his attorney said. ...more

August 14, 2008

Fortune teller Madam Marie, a figure of rock 'n' roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, has died. She was in her mid-90s. ...more

July 4, 2008

On a boardwalk in the wild Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, a visitor recently stepped on a slick spot of something, possibly bird droppings, and slipped and fell. She got up and filed a lawsuit against the National Audubon Society, owner of the sanctuary east of Naples. ...more

June 20, 2008

A Florida woman has filed a lawsuit against the owner of a Naples sanctuary, saying she slipped on bird poop or mud and was injured. ...more

June 16, 2008