Tampa News

Next week Robin DeLaVergne will be handed the title and substantial duties of chairing the 1,200-member Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce for 2014.

Copa Airlines is just days away from launching the most important international route in years at Tampa International Airport, and passenger demand is already exceeding expectations.

Rabbi Mendel Rubashkin, dressed as Judah Maccabee, speaks with Hunter and Lily Maddron during a menorah craft event at Home Depot last month.

It's been several years since the Radio City Christmas Spectacular made a stop in Tampa, but it's back this year and the buzz on it is that it's better than ever.

Miley Cyrus caused quite a commotion this year with her scantily clad stage shows and twerking dance moves.

Side Splitters Comedy Club in Tampa, Fla. will welcome Gary Valentine, tonight, December 12-14, 2013.

Pop-opera superstar Andrea Bocelli has just launched his annual holiday tour of the United States.

Residents have been invited to celebrate the centennial celebration of library services in Tampa and Hillsborough County with a New Year's Day kickoff party at the West Tampa branch, the area's first public library.

Tampa Bay will again host the NCAA's Division I hockey finals known as the Frozen Four in 2016.

An endangered sea turtle got a trip to a Tampa training center where doctors learn advanced medical skills so that veterinarians could figure out what is ailing it.

Tampa police say they've made an arrest in the shooting death of a cab driver. Police say 19-year-old Devante Bell was arrested Tuesday night in connection with the death of John Dooley.

The holiday season is officially upon us, and Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry is ready with seasonal exhibits and great deals on tickets that will have your brood ho-ho-hoing all the way home.

Blue Note saxophonist and composer Eric Darius has a gig Sunday at the Center for the Arts at Wesley Chapel.

The time of year has arrived for that inevitable question our holiday brains tend to delay until the 11th hour: "What are you doing for New Years?" We've collected a list of the best club, bar and street fireworks displays where you can dance, eat and toast "good-bye" to 2013 and "hello" to 2014 at on NYE.

A man was shot Friday night after he was attacked and robbed at his home in Tampa.

A stowaway from Jamaica has been arrested after authorities found him with nearly four pounds of marijuana on an inbound cargo ship at the Port of Tampa.

Federal and local investigators say Duwayne Hines, a Jamaican national, boarded the maritime cargo vessel "Dinkeldiep" while in a Jamaican port without permission.

Those irresistible British scamps in One Direction, who will play Tampa's Raymond James Stadium on Oct. 3, 2014 , get a glitzy, glossy, girl-screamy special on E! Wednesday: "One Direction: Off the Charts" .

Louis Miller, the former embattled head of Tampa International Airport who resigned in 2010 and took over at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport just months later, announced on Monday that he will resign at the end of this year after just three years on the job.

Tampa native Tony La Russa was elected Monday to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. La Russa, 69, graduated from Jefferson High in 1962 and debuted in the major leagues the next year, the Tampa Bay Times said.