Amid the bleak housing market news is a bit of good fortune for the Tampa Bay metro area: Sales of existing homes here far outpaced those in the state's other metro areas during the first 10 months of 2007, the Florida Association of Realtors reports. ...more

December 29, 2007

Watching the children skip across the church parking lot, singing "Jesus loves me, this I know," it's easy to forget where they come from, said Brandon resident Jo Powell. ...more

December 12, 2007

Infectious-disease expert David Gilbert was making rounds at the Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon in April when he realized that an unusual number of patients, including young, vigorous adults, were being hit by a frightening pneumonia. ...more

December 11, 2007

Watching the children skip across the church parking lot, singing "Jesus loves me, this I know," it's easy to forget where they come from, said Brandon resident Jo Powell. ...more

December 10, 2007

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is eager to find the man who killed two recently arrived Indian immigrants in cold blood during the failed Friday night robbery of a BP gas station and store where they were working at Interstate 4 and State Road 557. ...more

December 10, 2007

LAKE ALFRED - Two employees were shot and killed Friday night at a BP gas station at the intersection of Highway 557 and Interstate 4, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. ...more

December 8, 2007

The high school students let out a sigh of "aww" as William Zerbe stood up to escort his wife of 40 years to her seat. ...more

December 8, 2007

A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor battery charge that could see him released from a detention center in about eight months. ...more

December 4, 2007

The numbers are striking. Sheriff's deputies and police say they have raided and dismantled 34 marijuana "grow houses" in Polk County through the first 10 months of 2007. In all of 2006, that number was three. ...more

November 25, 2007

Even infants can tell the difference between naughty and nice playmates, and know which to choose, a new study finds. ...more

November 22, 2007