Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties. ...more

August 17, 2009

When comic book store owner Dave Luebke heard that after 67 years, the carrot-topped everyman of the comic world, Archie, was proposing to va-va-voomy rich girl Veronica instead of girl-next-door Betty, he decided to protest by selling his copy of the series' rare first issue. ...more

August 15, 2009

President Barack Obama's aunt says he was born in Hawaii and she can't understand claims that he's not a natural-born American citizen. ...more

August 14, 2009

The woman who took a gun-shaped cigarette lighter into the Hillsborough County Courthouse last week, unintentionally causing an evacuation, will not be charged, Hillsborough County deputies said. ...more

August 13, 2009

Police and federal drug agents are searching a Las Vegas pharmacy as part of the Michael Jackson investigation. ...more

August 11, 2009

The Moose are coming to Tampa, with the promise of 3,000 visitors expected to account for the sale of 17,500 hotel room nights in June 2012. ...more

August 7, 2009

Kid Rock is helping an Ohio pizza delivery driver critically injured during a robbery. ...more

August 7, 2009

A Robles Elementary janitor has been charged with lewd and lascivious conduct involving an 8-year-old student in the school's after-school program, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 3, 2009

A 33-year-old man was arrested Saturday after authorities found a possible pipe bomb in a stolen pickup he was occupying, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 2, 2009

Three teens have been arrested for an acid bombing Thursday, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies said. ...more

August 1, 2009