A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy knew something was amiss about a backhoe chugging along in Gibsonton about 3 this morning, an affidavit states. The deputy pulled over the backhoe on Nundy Avenue just west of U.S. 41 South after noting the driver wasn't using slow-moving-vehicle indicators. Further investigation and a chat with the driver, Charles James Smith, 24, revealed the backhoe was stolen, an affidavit states. ...more

April 28, 2009

A natural gas leak at Tampa Bay Boulevard and Lois Avenue began when a 6-inch line was ruptured by a construction crew, Tampa Fire Rescue says. ...more

March 23, 2009

Highlands Independent Bank is offering a reward of $1,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest of two people who attempted to break into the ATM at the Lake Placid branch on Jan. 29. ...more

February 2, 2009

Authorities are investigating a double fatal car accident in Pensacola. ...more

October 26, 2008

Both directions of Interstate 75 and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard were closed at their junction for several hours Monday afternoon after a construction worker severed a natural gas line. ...more

September 16, 2008

Workers have capped the natural gas leak that has closed both directions of Interstate 75 and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard at their junction, and all roads could be open about 6:30 p.m. the Tampa Fire Department said. ...more

September 15, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The new Comfort Suites will open June 15 despite a gas leak that shut down a portion of Waters Avenue for two hours on Monday. ...more

June 7, 2008

A backhoe ripped down a mobile home Wednesday where a young mother and her two children were slain. ...more

May 29, 2008

The city's cemetery expansion plans have been put on hold. Tuesday night, the city commission decided to table consideration of a proposal to trade a surplus street paver, backhoe and land to expand the 130-year-old burial ground. The trade would have covered only $38,645 of the $247,800 purchase price for the 7-acre parcel that Dade City wants to buy from contractor and property owner Bob Larkin. ...more

May 29, 2008

LUTZ - As a demolition crew's backhoe ripped down the walls of a mobile home where a young mother and her two children were found slain, her son's classmates honored them this morning by planting a memorial garden. ...more

May 28, 2008