TAMPA - The Florida Highway Patrol has ticketed nine drivers in the pileup on Interstate 4 in January, but troopers say many more citations likely will be issued as they reconstruct the chaos that unfolded in the smoke and fog. ...more

February 1, 2008

Don't Blame Cameras Regarding "Red-Light Cameras Don't Stop Accidents" (Other views, Jan 23): ...more

January 26, 2008

TAMPA - In the dense fog and smoke on a rural stretch of Interstate 4 in Polk County on Wednesday morning, a slightly injured Wilfredo Reveron tried to help. ...more

January 11, 2008

Folks, once again we've been had. We elected leaders who said they would take all the insurance companies in Florida by the lobes of their ears, drag them to the courts and force them to reduce the exorbitant rates being levied upon us. ...more

December 20, 2007

A wreck early this morning in Largo dominoed into two more crashes, with two damaged cruisers, a DUI arrest and several injuries, according to the Largo Police Department. ...more

December 17, 2007

An 8-year-old girl had a serious request - and potentially incriminating information about her mother - when she ran up to a Pasco County sheriff's deputy who was checking on a reported wreck. ...more

December 14, 2007

TAMPA - Police are checking students at Blake High School today to make sure they are wearing seat belts as they enter and leave the downtown Tampa campus. ...more

December 6, 2007

LAKE PLACID –– Irv Barber was 10 years old when he built his first model airplane from sticks. It was a simple rubber band-powered plane. Now 75 and a retired homebuilder/developer, his enthusiasm for planes has never wavered. In high school he built and flew U-control planes. With two wires and a handle, they're flown in circles, loops and rolls. He continually advanced to radio-controlled planes in the '60s. Although most people buy their planes already manufactured, Barber has been an exact builder for quite a few years. ...more

December 3, 2007

Nissan is recalling 686,500 Altima and Sentra passenger cars to fix problems with a sensor that could lead to engine stalling. ...more

November 28, 2007

TAMPA - Two crashes involving several cars have closed at least one westbound lane of the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway at 78th Street, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

November 27, 2007