A building contractor who admitted taking bribes from former city housing chief Steve LaBrake has been released early from his probation sentence. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA – A building contractor who admitted taking bribes from former city housing chief Steve LaBrake has been released early from his probation sentence. ...more

May 9, 2008

Brenda Andujar, grandmother of 4-year-old Joshua Angel Morrow, had heard the stories about people who run down pedestrians and leave them to die in the roadway. ...more

February 9, 2008

TAMPA - An illegal immigrant from Mexico was sentenced to the maximum 30 years in prison this morning for leaving the scene of a December 2006 accident that killed a 4-year-old boy and his great-uncle as they tried to cross the Courtney Campbell Parkway. ...more

February 8, 2008

Before the sport utility vehicle rolled over, killing a 21-year-old student dancer, Tracie Ann Elder had never heard of the University of South Florida SunDolls. ...more

February 2, 2008

TAMPA - Before the sport utility vehicle rolled over, killing a 21-year-old student dancer, Tracie Ann Elder had never heard of the University of South Florida SunDolls. Now, Elder will work with the young woman's mother, running three events to raise money for the group. ...more

February 1, 2008

A former county employee who acknowledged a role in a scheme that helped scores of illegal immigrants secure driver's licenses was sentenced Tuesday to two years and three months in federal prison and then three years of supervision. ...more

January 23, 2008

TAMPA - A former Hillsborough County employee who admitted a role in a scheme that helped scores of illegal immigrants secure driver's licenses was sentenced this morning to two years and three months in federal prison and then three years of supervision. ...more

January 22, 2008

A disbarred lawyer with a gambling addiction is taking his chances with a judge after pleading no contest to 17 counts of grand theft. ...more

January 21, 2008

Conversations with an underage girl that included handshakes, hugs and slaps on the derrière were in violation of Debra Lafave's house arrest, a judge determined Thursday. ...more

January 11, 2008