An award-winning social service agency will move from the area it serves, but the director vows it will continue to assist families in the low-income community west of the University of South Florida. ...more

June 18, 2008

UNIVERSITY AREA - An award-winning social service agency will move from the area it serves, but the director vows it will continue to assist families in the low-income community west of the University of South Florida. Positive Support for Parents in Neighborhoods, known as Positive Spin, must vacate its St. James Place Town Homes on 127th Avenue near 15th Street by July 31. The agency's 10-member staff has provided counseling and referrals for families, boys and girls activities clubs, tutoring programs, emergency assistance during flooding and support groups for men and women from three four-bedroom apartments at the complex since 2001. ...more

June 16, 2008

A Volusia County teen has been sentenced to probation for his role in a murder plot against his classmates. ...more

June 8, 2008

The cost of providing health services is going up, and the Pasco County Health Department plans to raise fees to compensate. ...more

May 10, 2008

The head of the city's risk management division resigned Sunday, one day after the Tribune wrote about his workers' complaints against him. ...more

February 25, 2008

TAMPA -- The head of the city's risk management department resigned Sunday, one day after the Tribune wrote about his workers' complaints against him. ...more

February 25, 2008

Ask and you shall receive in Lenawee County Circuit Court. A man who pleaded guilty to unarmed robbery faced no more than a year in the county jail, but asked to be sent to prison instead to help his chances of rehabilitation. ...more

February 10, 2008

Michael Vick deserves a second chance? You've got to be kidding. This is a man who has never once apologized for what he did. His only regret is that he got caught doing it. ...more

December 13, 2007

The rate of drug users who fatally overdose on methadone, a prescription that curbs heroin addiction, is skyrocketing at an alarming pace, a new Justice Department study shows. ...more

December 6, 2007

A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor battery charge that could see him released from a detention center in about eight months. ...more

December 4, 2007