A tanker truck overturned Friday outside the Port of Tampa, spilling most of its cargo of 8,800 gallons of gasoline into a nearby retention pond. ...more

November 24, 2007

Florida's attorney general said Tuesday his office cannot take any further legal action in the case of a teenager who died after he was roughed up by guards at a boot camp for juveniles. ...more

November 14, 2007

In his professional debut Friday night, Clearwater's Keith Thurman took only one round to dispense of Panama City's Kensky Rodney by technical knockout in a scheduled four-round middle heavyweight fight at the A La Carte Event Pavilion. ...more

November 10, 2007

The Land O' Lakes boys swim team had just wrapped up another Sunshine Athletic Conference title at the New Port Richey Aquatic Complex, though a tinge of dismay was in Coach Barbara Hayes' voice. ...more

October 24, 2007

TALLAHASSEE - About 700 people from across the state marched on the federal courthouse in Tallahassee today to protest the not-guilty verdict given seven drill instructors and a nurse charged in the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson after he collapsed at a Bay County boot camp in 2006. ...more

October 23, 2007

Dozens of people from the Bay area boarded buses to Tallahassee this morning to protest the not guilty verdict given seven drill instructors and a nurse charged in the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson after he collapsed at a Bay County boot camp in 2006. ...more

October 23, 2007

Animals Treated Better Regarding 'Acquitted On All Counts' (front page, Oct. 13): ...more

October 20, 2007

TALLAHASSEE – Outraged by the acquittal of eight former boot camp workers in the death of Martin Lee Anderson at the facility last year, the state NAACP organization plans to march and rally in Tallahassee next week in protest. The Florida State Conference NAACP has announced plans to galvanize thousands to demonstrate against the jury decision at an event organizers are calling ""The Justice for Martin Lee Anderson March and Rally'' at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Tallahassee Federal Courthouse, 111 N. Adams St. ...more

October 18, 2007

Federal authorities reached a temporary truce Wednesday with college students threatening a march on the Capitol next week to protest the acquittal of seven boot camp guards and a nurse in the death of a teenage boy under their supervision. ...more

October 18, 2007

It's understandable that many people are upset with the acquittals in the boot-camp death of Martin Lee Anderson. But it's dismaying to see the tragedy used to enflame racial tensions, especially since this case had already been complicated - and possibly undermined - by political grandstanding. ...more

October 16, 2007