TAMPA For decades, its child-sized streets and miniature replica of downtown — complete with grocery store, fast-food restaurant, firehouse and bank — have welcome wide-eyed youngsters. But today, Kid City, the Children's Museum of Tampa, closes its little doors for good at its longtime home next to Lowry Park Zoo. ...more

December 5, 2008

A financially strapped young mother trying to stretch her infant formula supply almost killed her newborn, hospital officials say. ...more

December 1, 2008

Whaley's Market, a thread in the fabric of South Tampa for 74 years, wasn't gone long. ...more

October 15, 2008

Whaley's Market, a thread in the fabric of South Tampa for 74 years, wasn't gone long. ...more

October 14, 2008

Cue Chriss Angel and David Blaine: In what might be described as supermarket sleight-of-hand, Publix plans to move an entire grocery store from one side of Brandon Boulevard to the other, overnight - sort of. ...more

October 1, 2008

STARKE - Florida is planning to carry out its 65th execution since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the state's death penalty in 1976. ...more

September 21, 2008

Police arrested a suspect in the armed robbery of the Cindy's Hallmark greeting card store Monday, in the Sebring Square shopping center. ...more

September 16, 2008

TAMPA - Police have found a missing 9-year-old boy kidnapped while he was asleep in his mother's vehicle. ...more

September 13, 2008

Got sticker shock at the checkout counter? ...more

September 11, 2008

Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate, many have lavished praise on her decision not to have an abortion after she and her husband learned that their youngest child, Trig, would be born with Down syndrome. Do those telling Palin "attagirl" and "way to go" have any idea what challenges and struggles Trig's parents - and all of us who care for children with special needs - live with every day? Though everyone cheered the Palin family in Minnesota last week, will those people be there for that little boy and his family when their support is really needed? ...more

September 9, 2008