I live in a deed-restricted town home community and have a neighbor who thinks the county's right of way is her personal property. She will not allow me to put out my trash bags for pickup and throws my garbage and yard waste onto my driveway when I do. The association, various police officers, and waste removal service representatives have all spoken to her about this, and yet she refuses to allow me to utilize this service area. It makes a mess and has to be rebundled. ...more

November 22, 2009

A wife and husband were arrested Monday on charges their five children were living under deplorable conditions. Lisa Schohl, 34, and Steven Schohl Sr., 49, both of 12711 119th St., Largo, were each charged with five counts of child neglect, and each was being held at the Pinellas County Jail on $25,000 bail. ...more

September 8, 2009

As Clearwater High School graduate Nicole Passonno Stott took a spacewalk Tuesday, her friends and family watched intently from Capogna's Dugout Italian Restaurant and Sports Bar. Television sets normally tuned to the Rays or Bucs in the Clearwater establishment were fixed on the NASA channel as Stott removed an ammonia tank from the International Space Station. The flight engineer is one of seven astronauts who blasted off Friday aboard space shuttle Discovery. They hooked up Sunday with the space station, where Stott will spend the next three months. ...more

September 2, 2009

A graduate of Clearwater High School who rocketed into space last week will step outside for a walk today. Flight engineer Nicole Stott, who also attended St. Petersburg College and the University of Central Florida, is scheduled to begin a spacewalk with mission specialist Danny Olivas at 5:49 p.m. today. ...more

September 1, 2009

A 44-year-old man got a painful and potentially deadly chemistry lesson Thursday when he mixed bleach and a household cleaner that contained ammonia. ...more

July 31, 2009

A brush fire near an ammonium nitrate and fertilizer storage company has pretty much burned out at this point, with just a bit of smoldering left, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokesman Ray Yeakley said. ...more

February 10, 2009

Stacy Long lives an organic lifestyle, but it wasn't a desire to join the latest trend that led her to change her way of eating and working. The 35-year-old owner of Stasia's Organic Element Salon in Wesley Chapel changed her way of living and doing business over several years out of necessity. ...more

October 17, 2008

Our Government At Work Regarding "Ammonia Pipeline Owner Fined $400,000 Over Leak" (Metro, July 9): ...more

July 15, 2008

A federal agency has cited the owner of an ammonia pipeline that ruptured last year for inadequate inspections and poor communication with county emergency responders. ...more

July 9, 2008

TAMPA - The corporation that owns an ammonia pipeline that ruptured last year in Riverview didn't respond properly to the situation and should pay nearly $400,000 in fines, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The corporation has filed an appeal and has until about Aug. 1 to get into compliance, its manager said. ...more

July 8, 2008