A 55-year-old driver who ran a red light and hit another car caused a chain reaction of accidents that involved three other vehicles stopped in the opposite lane Sunday at 8:30 a.m. ...more

September 15, 2009

Traffic is flowing again but commuters should be careful on southbound Interstate 275 after four accidents this afternoon that involved 15 vehicles. ...more

August 25, 2009

It is no wonder it costs the city plenty for emergency medical response teams. Every day there is an accident on Interstate 4. Why? People drive too fast. ...more

August 21, 2009

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty says his office and the Hartford Financial Services Group will refund or issue credits totaling more than $48 million to Florida businesses. ...more

August 14, 2009

Two Tampa Bay area men died in separate diving accidents in the Florida Keys while hunting lobster Thursday. ...more

August 8, 2009

The city council on Thursday asked the city's legal staff and police marine unit to devise a strategy to persuade the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to take a new look at allowing an ordinance setting speed limits and a no-wake zone on an approximately mile-long stretch of the Hillsborough River. The city can approve an ordinance, but officials say the state probably would nix it because of a lack of statistics showing accidents, injuries or fatalities. ...more

July 18, 2009

Liz Vreeland with Save Our Seabirds Inc. rescued a young pelican from the South Skyway Fishing Pier after the bird got caught on a fishing hook. Vreeland says the holiday weekend will be busy at the pier. She rescued 500 birds from fishing line accidents last year. ...more

July 4, 2009

A man accused of driving drunk and causing a 30-minute series of crashes that ended with the deaths of two women pleaded not guilty today to charges stemming from the April 13 incident. ...more

May 13, 2009

72 Number of troops who died in Iraq from accidents, illness or suicide between September 2008 and April ...more

May 4, 2009

Alligator Alley has been closed again thanks to smoke from a massive brush fire in the Everglades that has lingered over the highway. ...more

May 3, 2009