PLANT CITY - Firefighters are battling a blaze tonight that has completely engulfed a barn and consumed several large bales of hay, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

June 11, 2008

TAMPA - Three people fatally shot by Jorge Orlando Bello Garcia in his northwest Tampa rental home Saturday morning were childhood friends who knew one another from the time they were 10 or 11, a friend said Monday. ...more

June 9, 2008

BRADENTON — A former firefighter who was acquitted in 2004 on charges of leaving the scene of a fatal crash was arrested Saturday in a hit-and-run crash that authorities say is alcohol-related. ...more

June 1, 2008

Fire commissioners may keep their radios and respond to emergency calls. ...more

May 29, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Firefighter Dave Fraser has put down his ax and picked up the pen. And Newsweek magazine has taken notice. Fraser has a piece in this week's edition on the travails of turning 50 as a firefighter. It appears in the magazine's "My Turn" section. ...more

May 28, 2008

Career Day enlightening for reporter. ...more

May 23, 2008

More than a third of the 22 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend died in cars, troubling experts who say vehicles are one of the worst places to be during a twister. ...more

May 13, 2008

Firefighter Patrick Conrey put on 75 pounds of gear on Saturday and ran in Cincinnati's annual Flying Pig Marathon. ...more

May 5, 2008

TAMPA - Fourteen apartments near Carrollwood were evacuated this morning because of a fire, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

May 2, 2008

Chris Overholt has been playing baseball for almost as long as he's been able to walk. ...more

February 16, 2008