Sometimes, it's difficult to grasp the magnitude of a winning streak until it's over. And so it is when considering the Brandon High School wrestling team, whose incredible record of 459 straight victories ended Saturday with a loss to Homestead South Dade. ...more

January 8, 2008

A woman and her boyfriend were charged Friday with aggravated first-degree murder in the methodical Christmas Eve shootings of her parents, her brother, his wife and their two young children. ...more

December 29, 2007

Schools are custodians of our children, so any precaution they take to keep our kids safe is a welcome gesture. Take for example new dismissal procedures at Park Elementary School. Starting next year, parents or guardians who pick up the school's students are required to have a card in the dashboard that has the names of the children they will be picking up. ...more

December 27, 2007

It has been nearly 14 years, but Wuarner Rincones vividly remembers the "terrible" time he had in his first season as a minor-league player in the United States. ...more

December 16, 2007

Luke McCown didn't find out for sure he was playing against New Orleans on Sunday until the night before the game. With a chance to all but clinch the NFC South with a victory, the Bucs turned to a quarterback who hadn't started a game since 2004. ...more

December 3, 2007

LAKELAND - Drug detectives found 24 marijuana plants, each more than 8 feet tall, during a Tuesday raid of a marijuana grow house, Lakeland police reported today. ...more

November 14, 2007

The city is planning a two-pronged approach to smooth the bumps on Bayshore Boulevard and make the road safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. ...more

November 14, 2007

Office Depot said it will revise some past financial statements after an independent review of vendor-program accounting found weakness in its internal controls and led to the firing of four employees. ...more

November 10, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - There's this story about a wolf who dresses up as a little girl's grandmother. ...more

November 2, 2007

TAMPA - Investigators from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and the Occupational Safety & Health Administration are looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man fatally crushed by machinery at a lumber yard this morning. ...more

October 29, 2007