For eight months, Luan Nguyen, Annie Moniz and Jessica Smith worked to raise money to build a playground for the children of Bayou Park Village. ...more

June 7, 2008

To the students of East Bay High School, it sometimes seemed as if tragedy were picking them off this year in ways both randomly cruel and crazily unfair. ...more

June 6, 2008

A man accused by police of offering medical advice and writing prescriptions, despite the lack of a medical license, is back in Tampa, being held at Orient Road Jail without bail. ...more

June 5, 2008

Deputies arrested three adults and a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday in a Gibsonton mobile home park after they assaulted a pregnant woman, according to arrest reports. Sharon A. Jackson, 41, Iris N. Williams, 36, and Johnny D. Williams, 33, were charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant female and criminal mischief, records show. The Tribune is not publishing the name of the teenager because he was not charged as an adult. ...more

May 28, 2008

Charlie Alfonso Jr., 54, Tampa Height: 5-foot-8 ...more

May 23, 2008

Small Price To Pay Since housing, insurance, energy and the economy are such huge concerns now, I would like to offer a proven solution that gets very little press due to false, preconceived notions. Why not build a hurricane proof house that also passively heats and cools itself, within limits, and pays for itself in total assets saved over 14 years? ...more

May 18, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - For Bill Darou, the move into a bigger space is long overdue. ...more

May 17, 2008

SEBRING — Of the 32 weekends left in this year, 25 already have softball tournaments scheduled at the Highlands County Sports Complex. And Rocky Ellingsworth, manager of complex, says there's a good chance that all or most of those seven open weekends will be filled with tournaments. ...more

May 9, 2008

TAMPA - Plagued with debt, flush with charisma, Sergio Pinto arrived in Tampa in 2001. Back in Pittsburgh, he was many things: a restaurateur, an actor on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," owner of a translation business. He came to Tampa, a town with a climate more like the one in his native Guatemala — and a far greater need for his talent of interpreting Spanish to English and vice-versa. ...more

February 24, 2008

Plagued with debt, flush with charisma, Sergio Pinto arrived in Tampa in 2001. ...more

February 23, 2008