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

TAMPA -- Tampa Bay is now open to all boating traffic, from the upper regions to the Sunshine Skyway. The Bay had been shut down for more than 12 hours after a collision between a fishing trawler and barge spilled about 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the water. ...more

February 13, 2009

Visitors this week probably have noticed that the locals get a little annoyed when someone refers to where we live as Tampa Bay. If you ask directions and don't keep moving, you'll get the lecture about Tampa being the city and the other one that body of water we pay exorbitant prices to live by. ...more

January 28, 2009

Four Colombians pleaded guilty today to conspiring to smuggle 3,894 pounds of cocaine into the United States on a go-fast boat that was apprehended in the eastern Pacific Ocean. ...more

January 13, 2009

A powerful winter storm blasted large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast with snow and freezing rain on Saturday, grounding flights and stranding vehicles along icy roads ...more

January 11, 2009

The Coast Guard has called off its search for two pilots whose plane went missing Sunday as it flew over the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

December 2, 2008

An 87-foot Coast Guard cutter planned to search all night Monday for a 35-year-old Harbour Island man and a West Palm Beach resident whose plane apparently crashed Sunday into the Gulf of Mexico, authorities said. ...more

December 2, 2008

An 87-foot Coast Guard cutter will search all night for two pilots whose plane apparently crashed Sunday into the Gulf of Mexico, authorities say. ...more

December 1, 2008

Owen Johnson has offered his restaurant, Johnson Barbeque, 1305 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., again this year for a fundraiser that his mom, Tammy Johnson, has a special place in her heart for: the Susan G. Komen breast cancer walk. ...more

September 10, 2008

Six crew members of a narcotics smuggling vessel encountered in the Caribbean this year as part of Operation Panama Express were sentenced this month to terms of imprisonment ranging from eight to 14 years, according to the U.S. attorney's office. ...more

August 21, 2008