• Ybor City Fire: May 19, 2000
A fire swept from east to west through the northern portion of Ybor City on May 19, 2000, leveling the $32.8 million Camden apartment complex that was under construction, destroying a post office and injuring firefighters.
• Blackthorne Trial Reporter's Notebook
News Channel 8's Jackie Barron covered the Allen Blackthorne trial from San Antonio and teamed up with TBO.com to give a unique perspective from the courtroom in the form of a daily journal of her observations.
• Digital Music Trading
Computer-savvy music fans call it democracy. Record companies say it's theft. Controversial new ways of getting music over the Internet are eliciting strong feelings on both sides. This tutorial shows you how trading music with software such as Napster works and examines the issues surrounding the technology.
• The Valessa Diaries
Valessa Robinson's diaries chronicle her early teen years, up to three weeks before her mother's murder. In her own words, Valessa paints a self-portrait of a misguided, sometimes angry teenager who dabbled in drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll. It's all here.
• Tutorial: Malicious code
Viruses. Worms. Trojan horses, bombs, trap doors, spoofs, salami slicing. Whatever you want to call them, they're all malicious code and you need to watch out for them.
• The Uniform Test
Polk County school leaders cite the successes in Long Beach as motivation for adopting a mandatory school uniform policy. But Polk's new policy is controversial, and some parents say they will defy the district and fight the rule in court.
• Dancing Queens
Girls, girls, girls? Cross-dressers drive their audience wild at Ybor City's PleasureDome. Take a look backstage in this special slideshow presentation.
• Deadly Rampage
On Tuesday, May 19, 1998, Hank Earl Carr claimed he accidentally shot his girlfriend's 4-year-old son. That shooting sparked a day of rage that ended with a total of five people dead, including two Tampa police detectives, a state trooper and Carr himself.
