This had to be Richard Gonzmart's mother of all Capt. Renault's "I'm shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!" moments. ...more

February 21, 2008

TAMPA - Fire officials say an electrical short sparked the Saturday night blaze at a city maintenance building at Lowry Park, causing an estimated $2 million in damage. ...more

February 17, 2008

TAMPA - Saturday's final Gasparilla fling through Ybor City that drew about 40,000 revelers included 27 who police arrested for various offences, mostly misdemeanors. ...more

February 17, 2008

Potential volunteers for the Focus on Females third annual Women's Healthcare Symposium gathered recently to hear more about opportunities to assist with the free event. ...more

February 7, 2008

The Krewe of the South Shore Marauders will host the second Pirate Idol Tampa Bay - Entertaining for Charity event at 5 p.m. Feb. 23 at Dallas Bull, 3322 U.S. 301 N., Tampa. ...more

February 6, 2008

Newsome High School students created an elaborate underwater world with papier-mâche and shimmery fabrics that they will show off today as they march alongside the Krewe of the Unsinkable ...more

January 26, 2008

With just some paper, wire, fabric and paint, art students at Newsome High School created an elaborate underwater world that they will show off today as they march alongside the Krewe of the Unsinkable Molly Brown's float in Gasparilla's Parade of the Pirates. ...more

January 24, 2008

Susan Toll couldn't believe it. She had been in well over a dozen Gasparilla Pirate Fest parades, as a member of the Krewe of Alegria and the Rough Riders, and had loved Gasparilla ever since she was a child in the 1950s, when the pirates threw blank bullets and candy. But this was something new and pretty cool. ...more

January 24, 2008

A Gasparilla-inspired neighborhood tradition, dormant for nearly a decade, is returning to White Sands Beach. ...more

January 23, 2008

The forecast of lightning, heavy rain, hail and a tornado watch brought the Children's Gasparilla Parade to an abrupt halt late Saturday afternoon. At most, 25 of 150 floats and marching groups moved down the Bayshore Boulevard route before the parade was canceled. ...more

January 20, 2008