LAKELAND - Detectives arrested a Riverview woman today who is accused of leaving a newborn baby in a trash bin in Lakeland two years ago, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

May 22, 2008

He might be found curled up in bed as the clock ticks into Saturday afternoon. Maybe he's the guy grinning through gritted teeth as he pushes his next customer into a used car, still going after a 12- or 14-hour day. He might be behind the wheel, screaming at that damned woman who pauses too long at the four-way stop. ...more

May 20, 2008

LARGO - Bob Puccinelli, who was a maintenance worker at a nuclear weapons plant, died Wednesday morning of pancreatic and liver cancer. He was 72. ...more

February 13, 2008

The Polk County Medical Examiner's Office urged patience as it works to identify the badly burned bodies of the four people killed in Wednesday morning's fiery pileup on Interstate 4. ...more

January 11, 2008

Dense fog rolled in so quickly early Wednesday morning that troopers patrolling Interstate 4 never had time to close the road before a series of crashes that killed four people and injured 38 others, a highway patrol spokesman said. ...more

January 11, 2008

POLK CITY - The usually unremarkable pulse of workday traffic on Interstate 4 seized to a hellish halt Wednesday morning, when opaque fog and smoke triggered a chain of crashes that killed at least four people and injured 38. ...more

January 10, 2008

Editor's Note: This is a corrected version of a previous story. The Tampa Police Department reopened an investigation into Stanley Telfare last year. A story published online and in today's Tribune was wrong about when the investigation was reopened. TEMPLE TERRACE - A Blake High School custodian with a history of domestic incidents has been charged with beating and kidnapping his girlfriend, who is a secretary at the school, authorities said. ...more

October 16, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - A 46-year-old maintenance worker was found shot to death in an alley this morning, police said. Benjamin Philyor of St. Petersburg was found in an alley in the 2500 block of Langdon Avenue South at roughly 11:50 a.m., said police spokesman Bill Proffitt ...more

October 11, 2007

Anger over a divorce settlement may have driven a 63-year-old Baptist deacon to shoot five people in a law office, killing two, then exchange gunfire with police during a standoff, authorities said Friday. ...more

October 6, 2007

Two weeks after a Seffner woman went for a jog and wound up dead in a burning van, Hillsborough County sheriff's investigators tracked a suspect to the Panhandle and arrested him Thursday. ...more

September 28, 2007