TAMPA -- While serving as a 93-year-old blind woman's caretaker, Barbara J. Mulert bilked the woman out of nearly $500,000, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

February 20, 2008

TAMPA - World War I veteran Harry Landis has died in Sun City Center at the age of 108, leaving 107-year-old Frank Buckles of West Virginia as the only known surviving World War I veteran. ...more

February 6, 2008

HUDSON - Pasco County vice-narcotics deputies arrested a man after dismantling a large marijuana grow house, according to sheriff's office spokesman Doug Tobin. ...more

January 30, 2008

The 52-year-old caretaker of an elderly blind woman has been charged with bilking her out of $1,585 in cash, checks and credit card purchases, according to an arrest report. ...more

December 21, 2007

In a time when family-owned businesses are dying off, a handful of citrus growers have found a way to thrive doing things the old fashioned way. ...more

December 17, 2007

In a time when family-owned businesses are dying off, a handful of citrus growers have found a way to thrive doing things the old fashioned way. ...more

December 17, 2007

Howard Bethel didn't want to give up his dogs, but faced with hundreds of dollars in fines and perhaps thousands of dollars in veterinary bills, he loaded six of the pets into the white animal control van. ...more

December 12, 2007

Our association is having new amended documents and wants to charge everyone $25 for a copy. From what I have read in your article, the first copy must be free but they can charge for a second copy. Is this true? If so, will you e-mail me something I can show the board president in order to stop him from charging this cost? ...more

December 8, 2007

SEBRING - A 67-year-old man who was reported missing in the area of White Cedar Road was located about 7 p.m. Wednesday in a thicket by a Polk County Sheriff's Office helicopter using infrared technology. ...more

December 6, 2007

This is a story about my father, Justo P. Sosa, who was born in 1886. He and my mother, Amparo, had 10 children. I was their sixth child. ...more

December 4, 2007