Castor targets security costs U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, has added a provision to a pending bill that will help workers and businesses at the Port of Tampa and other Florida ports eliminate duplicative and costly background checks. ...more

October 24, 2009

Mr. Dettwiller, your conservative desires are understandable but what do they have to do with what actually happened over the last eight years? Where did they play in when Bush suspended habeas corpus (protection from unlawful detention) and used the Patriot Act to trample citizen's rights? ...more

January 28, 2009

The underwater bomb seekers that Coast Guard and Navy officials say will keep Tampa Bay safe from explosives were on display today at the Port of St. Petersburg. ...more

August 28, 2008

Last weekend, a team of researchers drove a small boat into Tampa Bay and dropped two massive decoy bombs near bridge pilings and port docks. The U.S. Navy, working with the experiment, then sent out two underwater robots to scour the watery floor looking for the bombs. ...more

August 28, 2008

The research group SRI International in St. Petersburg plans to announce a major research project with the U.S. Navy for sensors that rapidly make three-dimensional underwater maps showing features as small as a soda can. ...more

July 26, 2008

About two to three people each week are arrested after presenting fraudulent identification to enter the seaport, officials at the Tampa Port Authority estimated Thursday. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - About two to three people each week are arrested after presenting fraudulent identification to enter the seaport, officials at the Tampa Port Authority estimated Thursday. ...more

July 10, 2008

World customs authorities on Tuesday called on the United States to repeal or scale back a new law that will require foreign ports to screen all containers before they are shipped to the United States. ...more

June 11, 2008

A Department of Homeland Security program to strengthen port security has gaps that terrorists could exploit to smuggle weapons of mass destruction in cargo containers, congressional investigators have found. ...more

May 27, 2008

The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press. ...more

December 1, 2007