TAMPA – Former state Department of Children & Families spokesman Al Zimmerman pleaded not guilty today to child porn charges. ...more

October 23, 2008

U.S. troops could face trial in Iraqi courts for major crimes committed off base and when not on missions, under a draft security pact hammered out in months of tortuous negotiations, Iraqi officials familiar with the draft said Wednesday. ...more

October 16, 2008

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following refers to a community meeting held in Dade City last month about the landfill Angelo's Aggregate Materials wants to build outside Dade City. ...more

October 12, 2008

Susan Stephens hired TransFlorida Corp. to build a sun room on her Clearwater home. Now she finds herself without the sun room or the safety net that the state is supposed to provide when construction projects like this go south. The safety net, known as the Florida Homeowners Construction Recovery Fund, disappeared with the decline in its funding source: building permits. ...more

October 9, 2008

A Leon County Circuit Court judge placed a Tampa-based Medicare Advantage plan with 16,000 members into receivership for the purpose of liquidation late Monday night. ...more

September 30, 2008

Opponents of a proposed landfill outside Dade City told DEP officials Tuesday night that the project would be bad for the area. ...more

September 24, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has received a $500,000 grant to help use DNA testing to solve cold cases, Maj. Harold Winsett said. ...more

September 23, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has received a $500,000 grant to help use DNA testing to solve cold cases, Maj. Harold Winsett said. ...more

September 22, 2008

Pakistani investigators combed through the charred wreckage of the Marriott Hotel here Sunday in search of clues to who was behind a suicide bombing that killed at least 53 people, including two members of the U.S. military. ...more

September 22, 2008

The only American killed in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was an 18-year-old high school senior who had gone overseas for an arranged marriage to a Yemeni man, her family and the State Department said. ...more

September 19, 2008