While driving home one day, Chris Coad Taylor of Land O' Lakes said she was inspired to write her first book "Secrets of Havenridge." ...more

March 18, 2009

Gloria is huddled against a wall at Kennedy Boulevard and Franklin Street on a postcard-perfect Thursday night, gazing up at a building where city lights cast dazzling images of birds of paradise against a stone wall. ...more

March 14, 2009

A Falkenburg Road Jail inmate tried to hang himself Monday afternoon, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

September 2, 2008

A local computer businessman has donated a slew of copies of a local author's books to an international nonprofit organization. ...more

August 21, 2008

"The Lace Reader," by Brunonia Barry (William Morrow. $23) ...more

July 27, 2008

The trial of a teenager accused of killing his 14-year-old friend in a middle school bathroom will be transferred from Miami to Orlando because of relentless media coverage, a judge decided Tuesday. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA – A man with a gun who barricaded himself in a car outside a 24-hour Laundromat has been taken into custody, Tampa police said. ...more

July 1, 2008