Pasco County Sheriff's officials say a 36-year-old man created hazardous situations by stealing traffic signs around his neighborhood. ...more

December 18, 2009

Pasco County Sheriff's officials say a 36-year-old man created hazardous situations by stealing traffic signs around his neighborhood. ...more

December 17, 2009

The Keystone Civic Association's Adopt-A-Road crew hit the street April 18 for the Great American Cleanup, Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, and to celebrate Earth Day. About 19 volunteers scoured the group's adopted section of Gunn Highway - from Van Dyke Road to Tarpon Springs Road; Gunn Highway south to Miles Road; and Tarpon Springs Road from Gunn Highway to Blake Road; and a half-mile of Wayne Road west from Gunn Highway - a total of three miles. ...more

April 29, 2009

Deputies shot and killed a suspected drug dealer Friday morning after he fired at SWAT team members, wounding one deputy. ...more

February 21, 2009

A Lutz man who robbed a Land O' Lakes bank Friday has been arrested, Pasco County deputies say. Deputies arrested Mark Anthony Thomson, 35, of 18830 Carr Drive. ...more

November 14, 2008

First the National Guard soldiers stacked the Pin Oak levee with sandbags, raising it by as much as 4 feet. ...more

June 29, 2008

AVON PARK — A man was arrested late Saturday afternoon after he was accused of smashing his car into a house and then taking off, according to an official with the Avon Park Police Department. Roberto Jimenez, of Plant City, was charged with DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a valid driver's license in connection with the Saturday evening accident at 2601 Woodruff Heights, said police Sgt. Sally Vega. All three charges are misdemeanors. Jimenez was being held at Highlands County Jail in lieu of a $2,250 bond Sunday. According to Vega and other witnesses, a red Plymouth Breeze with Ohio license plates backed through the wall of the house at around 4:18 p.m. Saturday. Vega said that car was driven by Jimenez, who was visiting a neighbor when he hit the house. The home, owned by Reina V. Rodriguez and Angel L. Maldonado according to Highlands County Property Appraiser records, was unoccupied at the time of the accident, and no injuries were reported. ...more

February 11, 2008

There are not many better sights for a goaltender than to watch opposing skaters look up to the ceiling or slam their sticks down on the ice around the crease. ...more

December 7, 2007

One day it wasn't there; the next day it was. In August 1961, East Germany erected the barbed-wire barricade that quickly was transformed into the Berlin Wall to staunch the flow of East Germans escaping to the West. ...more

October 25, 2007

Tossing the word 'war' into an album title almost certainly signifies a political slant in 2007. But the key to Stars' fourth album is 'bedroom' - the battlefield on which the songs' morning-after and night-before skirmishes take place. ...more

October 12, 2007