They're not just kidding around. These young people are serious about community service and their desire to help other kids in need, said Stacey Efaw, executive director of the Emergency Care Help Organization. ...more

November 5, 2008

More than 100 names, including Dick Stowers Elementary School and Glenn Barrington Middle School, have been suggested for the two schools under construction on the south side of FishHawk Boulevard in Lithia. ...more

October 22, 2008

More than 100 names, including Dick Stowers Elementary School and Glenn Barrington Middle School, have been suggested for the two schools under construction on the south side of FishHawk Boulevard in Lithia. ...more

October 22, 2008

Pet owners with dogs who charge the mailman or choose to chew shoes may want to leash the beasts and hop over to the rabbit barn at the Florida State Fairgrounds. ...more

October 22, 2008

TAMPA - Two men are accused of pounding on a taxicab and threatening to harm the cab driver after they were cut off in traffic, affidavits state. ...more

October 18, 2008

Donna Johnson has made it her mission to send care packages to U.S. servicemen and women overseas since her son, David, was deployed to Kyrgyzstan with the Air Force for the first time four years ago. ...more

October 13, 2008

Ben Welch knows that he came close to death. And every time the 13-year-old Seffner boy runs a fever or gets a scratch, his family recalls the nearly two-year ordeal that cut short his soccer career and almost cut short his life. ...more

October 8, 2008

Driving along Adamo Drive to meet his wife, Rene, for dinner at Sweet Tomatoes, Nick Vojnovic, president of Beef O'Brady's, was intrigued when he spotted a "restaurant for lease" sign in front of the Best Western Hotel and Conference Center just east of U.S. 301. ...more

September 24, 2008

The driver of a car that went the wrong way on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway on Wednesday and caused a fatal pileup had beer in her cup holder and on the floor of the passenger side, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

September 11, 2008

The growing number of residents relying on the Emergency Care Help Organization have set an unhappy record for the local nonprofit, which distributes food, clothing and other necessities to families in need. ...more

September 10, 2008