All good things come to an end, and for me, the best time of my life has been the past 24 years as the outdoors editor of The Tampa Tribune. Economic conditions and a proffered buyout combined with the fact that I'm only a few months from Medicare make this prime time for me to take a bow and start easing toward the exit. Though I hope it won't be curtains for me, so to speak. As Bobby Bowden has famously pointed out, there's not but one big event left after you retire. So I am "semi-retiring." ...more

July 20, 2008

Tampa Housing Authority Commissioner Karen Peoples has abused her position of power, shirked her responsibilities as a renter and gone out of her way to malign people perceived as enemies. And you, the taxpayer, have subsidized her stay in public housing for 24 years. ...more

July 18, 2008

TAMPA - Tampa police are searching for a suspect in Wednesday's robbery of a Regions Bank. A man entered the bank, 4701 N. Armenia Ave., about 10 a.m., approaching the teller with money in hand, police say. Then he told the teller he was robbing the bank. He demanded money and left with cash. ...more

July 3, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Aixa Crespo is making her mark fast. Just days after Sunlake named her the volleyball coach, Crespo has managed to bring the Central Florida Volleyball Club to her school to conduct a camp not only for her players, but for those in the area interested in the sport. ...more

June 28, 2008

Diane and Paul Iaria met in 1984 when they joined a convoy of photographers hired to drive across the Northeast and set up temporary portrait studios inside department stores. ...more

June 18, 2008

A high-ranking Colombian rebel leader has given herself up, the latest defection to suggest that the government's efforts to strike at the group's leadership is succeeding. ...more

May 20, 2008

TAMPA - Alex Sink, Florida's chief financial officer, will meet with Alan Crotzer today in Tallahassee and sign the final paperwork needed to pay Crotzer $1.25 million for his wrongful imprisonment. ...more

May 6, 2008

Ken Pruitt, the leader of the Florida Senate, says compensation for the wrongfully convicted is one of his top priorities this year. ...more

February 2, 2008

Alan Crotzer is working at a landscaping company, hoping one day to be compensated for the 24 years he spent in prison for a rape he didn't commit. ...more

January 20, 2008

Former Tribune correspondent and longtime Sarasota resident Bob Ardren died Tuesday of cancer, said his longtime companion of 24 years, Cathy Ciccolella. He was 67. ...more

January 2, 2008