The Tampa Downtown Rotary recently presented a check for $3,500 to the Wheels of Success program for Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties. The donation, which will be matched by the Eckerd Foundation, will help provide vehicle replacement, car repairs, related licensing services, car payments and car care classes for qualified working poor who are without reliable transportation. ...more

April 1, 2009

Tim Truitt of New Port Richey says if the federal government gave the bailout money to ordinary Americans they would end the banks' bad-debt problems. ...more

March 21, 2009

A vehicle caught fire after hitting a power pole, overturning and going into a downed power line tonight and shut down Brandon Boulevard near Lithia Pinecrest Road. ...more

March 13, 2009

Maybe Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White misses his old line of work. White was driving home on North Boulevard Friday evening when he saw a man beating a woman at around the 3700 block. ...more

March 13, 2009

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is investigating 13 to 20 car break-ins that occurred overnight in a residential neighborhood in Madeira Beach, authorities said. There also might have been a few additional car burglaries in nearby Indian Shores. ...more

February 23, 2009

Investigators searching for a missing North Florida girl say they have done another neighborhood canvas of the area where 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings vanished more than a week ago. ...more

February 17, 2009

The driver of a van who crashed into a garage Tuesday at the corner of Sebring Parkway and Home Avenue was cited for careless driving by the Sebring Police Department. ...more

February 13, 2009

Martin Truex Jr. and sentimental favorite Mark Martin will pace the field in the 51st Daytona 500 on Sunday. ...more

February 8, 2009

If you felt financially squeezed in the last few months of 2008, you weren't the only one. On Friday, the Commerce Department announced that the economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace in the final quarter, the worst showing in a quarter-century. ...more

January 31, 2009

The inquiry continued Tuesday into the collapse of a ceiling at a Tampa International Airport parking garage early Monday morning, but the cause still has not been determined, an airport official said. ...more

January 28, 2009