The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year. ...more

December 24, 2009

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's recently gave Hillsborough County its highest rating for a bond issue the county will use to buy land for conservation. ...more

December 12, 2009

President Obama keeps talking about the jobs his administration is "creating," but there are more people unemployed now than before he took office. How can there be more unemployment after so many jobs have been "created?" ...more

December 9, 2009

A woman arrived home Wednesday and noticed beer missing from her refrigerator and a broken handle on her liquor cabinet. ...more

November 6, 2009

Drivers should brace for downtown streets to be torn up over the next year as work gets under way today to replace miles of water pipelines, some more than a century old. ...more

October 5, 2009

My name is Tammy Albritton and I would like to thank Dr. Thakkar for the bonds he donated to Fred Wild Elementary this school year. ...more

June 9, 2009

Jury selection has begun in the in the kidnapping trial of Vicente Beltran-Moreno, who is accused of tying a 13-year-old boy to a tree and attempting to hold him for ransom. ...more

June 1, 2009

Two sisters remained in jail Wednesday following their arrest on warrants alleging they battered a pregnant woman. ...more

May 15, 2009

Police arrested three men early this morning at the Playhouse Adult Theater in Drew Park. ...more

March 15, 2009

Florida's insurance commissioner says the national credit crunch could lead to more home foreclosures. ...more

March 5, 2009