Tampa News

A 31-year-old Tampa man sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in a parking lot near his home, Hillsborough County deputies say.

Governor Charlie Crist is expected to sign Florida's rail legislation bill during events in Tampa, Tallahassee, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.

Thirty people have been charged in three cities for their alleged roles in schemes to submit more than $61 million in false Medicare claims as part of the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal ...

Tampa firefighters are investigating what they say is another in a string of arson fires in the Ybor City area.

Gov. Charlie Crist is scheduled to sign Florida's rail legislation bill that won legislative approval last week at multiple events Wednesday in Tampa, Tallahassee, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.

Lil Wayne heads to jail in February in his New York gun case, just days after his next album comes out.

Federal agents Tuesday announced they have broken up five separate rings that allegedly filed $61 million in false claims with Medicare, and charged 32 people in Miami, Florida; Detroit, Michigan; and Brooklyn, New York, with a variety of schemes to defraud the health care system for the elderly and disabled.

With pedestrian fatalities up more than 50 percent in Tampa this year, police will take to the streets this week to educate drivers and pedestrians.

Things have cooled down considerably in a neighborhood of Ybor City just north of the historic district.

Federal authorities arrested reggae artist Buju Banton late last week, saying he tried to buy at least 5 kilograms of cocaine in Sarasota.

A long-range strategy for commercial development of the former Gene's Bar on 22nd Street and a former honky tonk bar on 34th Street has received the go-ahead from the East Tampa Community Revitalization Partnership.

By Irene Maher, Times Staff Writer

TAMPA — If any employer would know how to manage its own workers' health care expenses, you might think it would be a hospital. But at a time when costs are soaring so high that many employers are cutting or even eliminating coverage, even health experts need help. That's the case at Moffitt Cancer Center, which three years ago hired Tampa consulting firm MedVision (www.med-vision.com) to look at how its 3,100 employees were using their health benefits. Today, the most visible result...

Tampa arson investigators are looking for the person/persons responsible for setting 18 fires this year in the V.M. Ybor neighborhood.

The controversial gay-bashing reggae artist Buju Banton has been stirring up controversy throughout his U.S. tour, and Tampa Bay was no different: The Cuban Club drew heavy criticism in October for hosting his show after two other local venues bowed out.

Authorities today identified Daniel Reeves as the armed robber who held up the Suncoast Schools Credit Union on Friday, according to Tampa police.

U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio refused Monday to say how he'd vote on the controversial SunRail proposal now being considered by the state Legislature, even though a similar proposal passed the state House with his support as speaker in 2008.

A 34-year-old Florida woman plans to be a graduate and bride on the same day in Iowa.

Forget the swamp. A 10-foot alligator recently decided a Florida family's front doorstep was the perfect place to hang out, Bay News 9 in Tampa, Fla., reported.

The Tampa Police Department is looking for a suspect who robbed a credit union late Friday afternoon.

A juvenile court judge has found a 12-year-old Tampa boy not guilty of murder and child cruelty in the July death of his 5-week-old cousin in Georgia.