Officials have found the body of what they believe is the 35-year-old man who fell off a small pleasure boat this evening near the Port of Manatee, northeast of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. ...more

October 28, 2009

Four days before a hearing about the roughly $18,000 he owed his ex-wife in child support, Robert Cecil Laird jumped to his death from the Sunshine Skyway bridge. ...more

October 13, 2009

A jackknifed semi-truck on the Howard Frankland Bridge has snarled traffic entering Tampa on Interstate 275 this morning, with only a single lane of traffic passing, according to a Florida Highway Patrol Web site. ...more

June 26, 2009

A good Samaritan rescued four people clinging to an overturned boat near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge this morning, St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue workers say. ...more

March 27, 2009

The spring solstice arrived a few days ago, and with it usually comes some of the best fishing of the year. Snook have already begun to move from winter quarters up river and from the mangrove backcountry out onto the flats. These fish are suckers for live sardines, but I have yet to see any in shallow water. ...more

March 25, 2009

Lower Expressway Tolls Ever wonder why more people aren't using the Selmon Expressway? ...more

March 12, 2009

St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue personnel said they prevented a woman from jumping off the Sunshine Skyway bridge Tuesday night. ...more

February 24, 2009

When somebody is unwillingly bobbing in the water between the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and McKay Bay, more than likely, members of Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75 will spot him and pull him from the drink. ...more

February 18, 2009

A 1,000-gallon spill of diesel fuel into Tampa Bay will not seriously damage the environment, authorities say, but the collision that led to it forced the Coast Guard to shut down the Bay for more than 12 hours. ...more

February 14, 2009

Serious boaters in the Bay area know O'Neill's Marina well. The business, near the north end of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, has been an icon for 55 years, giving fishermen a place to buy bait, fuel up and have their boats serviced. The marina is run by the Phillips family, under a lease with the city of St. Petersburg. That lease will expire this summer, and St. Petersburg managers have told the family the city will take over the operation. ...more

January 13, 2009