NEWS Friday, July 30, 2010

The first predominantly African-American congregation from Florida to minister in Haiti since the Jan.

A bicycle lays in the street on Hyde Park Avenue at Brorein after an early morning accident sent the rider to the hospital.

Researchers say hotel guests in the Tampa Bay area, including St. Pete Beach, are paying 11 percent less this year than last.

Website: http://www.borntoride.com - With a goal to raise money for the families of slain police officers, David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab, 'Born To Ride TV' and the Tampa Latin America Motorcycle Association united for a motorcycle ride last week.

LeRoy "Roy" Collins Jr., a former U.S. Senate candidate, retired two-star Navy admiral, and son of a former Florida governor, died when an SUV hit him as he rode his bike in South Tampa early Thursday morning.

Police say former U.S. Senate candidate LeRoy Collins Jr. has been killed in a bicycle accident.

This morning the Tampa City Council rejected a proposal to have the Florida Department of Transportation apply for federal funds to study extending the Tampa-Orlando high speed rail line to Tampa's International Airport.

With These Words I Fall is a Westley Chapel metal band that has come a long way in the past year, playing bills at State Theatre and other local venues as well as headlining at Bourbon Street Night Club in New Port Richey.

The identity theft scheme started with a loosely knit gang of criminals and prostitutes from South Florida and then spread across the country.

UPDATE: One of Kathy Castor's potential rivals in the November general Congressional election, Republican Mike Prendergast, is criticizing the Tampa area Democrat for voting against funding $33 billion more towards the Afghanistan war effort.A Prendegast, running against 3 other Republicans on August 24, says: a oeAs a 31 year combat veteran who ...

We're a multicultural population here in the Tampa Bay area, and by world standards, a new one.

Ben Bear of Norfolk, Va., inspects the selection of handcrafted beers and ales in a sampler at Tampa Bay Brewing Co.

A 21-year-old man faces kidnapping charges after police say he fled from officers in a stolen vehicle with two teenage runaways in the car, speeding 100 mph down Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard during Tuesday morning's rush hour.

Bill McCollum has gotten the endorsement of the influential Florida Chamber of Commerce in the contentious race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.

A vehicle has crashed into a gasoline pump at Florida and Linebaugh avenues, the Tampa Police Department said.

A strong line of downburst winds is being blamed for ripping through a Tampa Industrial Complex, tearing down walls, and sending furniture and insulation blowing out the front doors.

Tampa Fire Rescue is on the scene of a fire at a gas station at Florida and Linebaugh Avenues that started when a car crashed into a pump.

On the same day Congress narrowed the gap in cocaine sentences, a Tampa man was sentenced to more than 15 years for distributing crack near an elementary school.

Eddie DeBartolo Jr. isn't nearly as involved with the NFL as he used to be. He prefers to watch his grandson play in Freddie Solomon's football camp at the University of Tampa.

Nationally, the number of police officers killed during felonies has been dropping steadily since the 1970s.