A former bookkeeper embezzled $9.9 million, forcing her company to make layoffs as she bought 400 pairs of shoes that she kept in a room-sized closet decorated with a crystal chandelier and a plasma television, authorities claim. ...more

March 7, 2009

Kaiser, the 4-year-old male Basenji who scooted away from his Seminole Heights home during a recent burglary, is back safely, owner Lauren Lewis said. ...more

January 30, 2009

Lauren Lewis can't help but think of her dog, Kaiser, out in the cold. ...more

January 22, 2009

A former Marine lance corporal who pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to buy a plasma television online has been sentenced to five years probation, with a condition that he stay in a halfway house on house arrest for six months, his lawyer said. Prosecutors say Steven Lee Fickey stole the identities of about 18 people, using them to buy things through a Web site maintained by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. ...more

November 7, 2008

Leadership Hernando hosts casual, Western-themed fundraiser. ...more

October 8, 2008

They could have gone black-tie but decided on boots and jeans instead. ...more

October 8, 2008

The last Indigo Coffee drive-through shop came tumbling down recently at Interstate 275 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. By year's end, an office building will begin rising in its place. ...more

September 24, 2008

A former Marine lance corporal who prosecutors say stole the identities of about 18 people pleaded guilty Friday to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to buy a plasma television online. ...more

August 23, 2008

TAMPA - A former U.S. Marine lance corporal, who prosecutors say stole the identities of about 18 people, is scheduled to plead guilty this morning to stealing the identity of a fellow marine to buy a plasma television online. ...more

August 22, 2008

A former U.S. Marine lance corporal, known to neighbors for parading around an apartment complex with a ceremonial sword, has agreed to plead guilty to stealing the identity of a fellow Marine to order a plasma television online. ...more

August 20, 2008