TALLAHASEE - The Florida Supreme Court rejected the latest round of appeals for Wayne Tompkins, sentenced to die for killing an East Tampa teenager and burying under her home in 1983. ...more

November 7, 2008

Marvin Knight doesn't have to look past the customers at his East Tampa fish market to see where President-elect Barack Obama needs to focus his promise of change. ...more

November 6, 2008

A man sentenced to die for killing his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter in 1983 filed a petition in U.S. District Court today seeking to have his sentenced overturned. ...more

November 4, 2008

1:15 p.m.: "I felt good, I felt happy," said 50-year-old Tampa native Susan Staten, who voted shortly after 1 p.m. today at the Ragan Park Community Center in East Tampa. "We're ready for a change." ...more

November 4, 2008

11:30 a.m.: "Put me down as a first-time voter," shouts Natasha Williams. There are a lot of first-time voters this election, but few are like Williams, who at the ripe young age of 36 is casting the first ballot of her life. ...more

November 4, 2008