TAMPA – Smiles lit the faces of sick children at Tampa General Hospital today. ...more

January 3, 2008

Regarding "A Man Of Action" (front page, Dec. 23): Michelle Bearden's story on the Rev. Abe Brown and his statewide, multi-prison outreach conveys that he is one of Florida's greatest treasures. His determination to continue on follows the same designs of the late Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa in carrying on God's mission for them. In the early 1990s, the Rev. Brown convinced me to ride up on one of his "vintage" buses to the Ocala Correctional Institution on Christmas Eve. Seeing the joy on the inmate's faces was unbelievable! Together we were singing, sharing, hugging, gift giving and smiling in that stark jail cafeteria. It made for one Christmas that I'll never forget. ...more

December 27, 2007

Salvation Army Maj. Richard Hathorn knew when and where it would happen, but he still doesn't know who slipped the $1,000 bill into one of the charity's Christmas kettles. ...more

December 25, 2007

Local volunteer artists whose motto is "sharing our God-given talents" helped brighten the holidays recently for students at the Willis Peters Exceptional Center. ...more

December 22, 2007

Authorities are searching for two men who robbed a Publix supermarket Saturday at 7018 Waters Ave, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

December 15, 2007

We look like the walking dead, straggling into the receiving office of a large discount retailer, shirts wrinkled and sweaty, hair disheveled, faces gaunt, shoulders slouched. Truck drivers. I first saw him while rounding the turn at the far end of a long warehouse. He was sitting on the landing gear of a semi, and he looked very tired. ...more

December 15, 2007

A father was indicted Thursday in the slayings of two of his children, another child and the children's mother in her apartment almost three years ago. ...more

December 14, 2007

Daniel Rivera held a crowbar in his right hand as he walked toward a Hillsborough County deputy early this morning. ...more

December 11, 2007

TAMPA - An argument about a Tampa man's unpaid rent led him to attack his roommates with a large kitchen knife, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

December 10, 2007

Thousands of patients are facing delays in crucial medical tests because of a shortage of a radioactive substance used in those examinations - all because of the shutdown of one nuclear reactor in Canada. ...more

December 8, 2007