TAMPA -- An odd smell is keeping students out of the Gorrie Elementary School library this morning, officials said. Tampa Fire Rescue responded to the school at 705 W. De Leon St. at about 7 a.m. after school personnel reported smelling smoke. ...more

March 26, 2009

CRIME TRACKER This is a partial list of service calls reported Jan. 15-21 to the Tampa Police Department. Questions about a specific event should be directed to the department at (813) 276-3200. ...more

January 28, 2009

CRIME TRACKER This is a partial list of service calls reported Jan. 1-7 to the Tampa Police Department. Questions about a specific event should be directed to the department at (813) 276-3200. ...more

January 14, 2009

CRIME TRACKER This is a partial list of service calls reported Dec. 12-18 to the Tampa Police Department. Questions about a specific event should be directed to the department at (813) 276-3200. ...more

December 24, 2008

Germaine Gibbs faced the challenge: Walk forward. Walk backward. Never stop smiling. And point to the wall, pretending it's a Winnebago being given away on "The Price is Right." ...more

August 13, 2008

Walking into the spice room at the Vigo Importing Co., the Gorrie Elementary fifth-graders pinched their noses, covered their faces with their sweatshirts and almost simultaneously said, "Ewwwwww." ...more

February 9, 2008

Four Tampa men and a teenage boy chuckled behind a man as he walked home near Memorial Hospital this morning. When the man, St. Petersburg Times photographer Zach Boyden-Holmes, turned and saw them, he started to run to his apartment. The five people chased him, caught him and beat him up at 3206 W. DeLeon St. in South Tampa, police said. ...more

December 6, 2007