Hillsborough County

'Sweepstakes' game rooms raise legal, tax questions

2011-12-24 11:50:54

Lillie Chappell was up about $50, then down about the same, and was into her third hour playing a video game — pressing a button on the computer screen and watching tumbling four-leaf clovers, bars, horseshoes, numeral sevens. Compared with slot...

City sues state over jail report

2005-12-14 00:00:00

Taking up the cause of public access to government information, Baltimore officials filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state prison system, demanding an uncensored version of a consultant's report about problems at the Central Booking and Intake...

Intake center report is out

2005-12-09 00:00:00

State prison officials have given a judge and the city solicitor a heavily redacted consultant's report on problems at the state-run Central Booking and Intake Center in Baltimore, making it impossible to determine what, if any, remedies were recommended....

Report: Florida property appraiser admits to swapping porn with HR director

2012-05-22 04:48:00

The property appraiser for Hillsborough County has admitted to swapping porn with his human resources director years before he fired her Monday, the Tampa Bay Times is reporting. Hillsborough County Property Appaiser Rob Turner said he fired Carolyn...

Florida emergency officials practice for big hurricane

2012-05-21 21:51:00

It's a nightmare scenario. Tens of thousands of people throng Tampa for the Republican National Convention — politicians, journalists, tourists, protesters. And then, a massive hurricane roars up Tampa Bay. For the next three days, until...

Florida woman sentenced to 20 years for firing warning to scare husband

2012-05-19 10:33:00

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he was threatening her. Nobody got hurt, but this month a northeast Florida judge was bound by...

Suicide pact? DeLand murder suspect, pregnant girfriend died from shots to the head

2012-05-12 10:09:00

GIBSONTON, Florida — Authorities say a slaying suspect and his girlfriend found fatally shot after a SWAT standoff near Tampa may have had a suicide pact. A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokesman said Friday that 29-year-old James Seagraves...

Decorated ex-Marine captain pleads guilty to DUI manslaughter

2012-05-10 12:01:18

A former Marine captain who earned three Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star for heroism in Afghanistan and Iraq pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a man while driving drunk in Tampa. Scott Sciple, 38, agreed to plead guilty in Hillsborough County on...

Suspect in restaurant manager slaying, girlfriend dead after SWAT standoff

2012-05-10 22:16:00

A felon who police say killed the manager of a downtown DeLand restaurant is dead after a SWAT standoff in Hillsborough County. James Seagraves, 29, a former employee at Mainstreet Grill, shot Tom Walsh to death March 31 during a botched robbery at the...

Zimmerman case will test tough-on-crime prosecutor Angela Corey

2012-04-21 17:50:00

State Attorney Angela Corey has tried more than 50 homicides. She's known for being tough on crime and an advocate for victims, and she has been credited with filling up her local jail. And she's connected to Florida's Republican Party. So it wasn't...

Disabled will get help at the pump with modernized law in Broward

2012-04-25 15:32:00

Gas stations in Broward County will have to make life a little easier for drivers who are too disabled to pump gas. The county passed a law this week requiring gas stations to post a phone number on gas pumps or provide an intercom system so disabled...

Giants' Huff lands on DL due to anxiety attacks

2012-04-26 00:44:03

The Sports Xchange Giants' Huff lands on DL due to anxiety attacks Without Aubrey Huff, the San Francisco Giants are trying to focus on baseball and move forward, and manager Bruce Bochy likely will play Brandon Belt and Brett Pill more at first base....

Georgette LeMieux, left, tries to take a photo of her partner Lori Bott with Michael LeMieux-Bott, 9, after the adoption ceremony as Matthew LeMieux-Bott, 7, jumps in front of her camera at the Hillsborough County Courthouse on July 6, 2011. They formally adopted each other's birth children as

2011-12-20 11:18:20

Michael Lohan, 51, poses for his mugshot after being arrested for battery domestic violence on October 25, 2011 in Hillsborough County, Tampa, Florida.

2011-10-25 00:00:00

Georgette LeMieux tries to take a photo of her partner Lori Bott with their son Michael LeMieux-Bott, 9, after the adoption ceremony as Matthew LeMieux-Bott, 7, jumps in front of her camera at the Hillsborough County Courthouse on July 6, 2011.

2011-07-05 00:00:00