No criminal charges will be filed against two deputies who fatally shot a 25-year-old Spring Hill man last November. ...more

February 21, 2008

The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week. ...more

February 18, 2008

If Abu Zubaydah, a senior operative of al-Qaida, died in American hands, CIA officers pursuing the terrorist group knew that much of the world would think they had killed him. ...more

December 30, 2007

A top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said Wednesday that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's admission of illegal drug use as a young man could threaten his electability and be seized on by Republicans if he won the Democratic presidential nomination. ...more

December 13, 2007

The explosives authorities found in the trunk of two University of South Florida students' car were "sugar rockets," or fireworks that would just travel a few feet in the air and smoke, one of the students told investigators, according to a court filing. ...more

December 1, 2007

TAMPA - The explosives authorities found in the trunk of two University of South Florida students' car were "sugar rockets," or fireworks that would just travel a few feet in the air and smoke, one of the students told investigators, according to a court filing. ...more

November 30, 2007

TAMPA - A prosecution court filing provides new details of a videotape the government says was made by a University of South Florida student and posted to the Web site YouTube. ...more

November 21, 2007

Plans for a Tampa Bay Rays stadium on the downtown waterfront could score an economic home run, the team says, pumping $1 billion into the city's economy, creating 2,500 permanent jobs and attracting a million square feet of new retail, office and residential development, including 900 homes. ...more

November 17, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Plans for a Tampa Bay Rays stadium on the downtown waterfront could score an economic home run, the team says, pumping $1 billion into the city's economy, creating 2,500 permanent jobs and attracting a million square feet of new retail, office and residential development, including 900 homes. ...more

November 16, 2007

New data on an experimental AIDS vaccine that failed to work show volunteers who got the shots were far more likely to get infected with the virus through sex or other risky behavior than those who got dummy shots. ...more

November 8, 2007