In-person exit polling shows that more and more voters only have cell phones, and increasingly they vote differently from those who still have landlines at home. In 2008, those most likely to be cell-only - younger voters, minorities, people with low income - were among Democrat Barack Obama's strongest supporters. It's the latest indication that excluding cell users - as many pollsters still do - can reduce the accuracy of telephone polls. ...more

November 11, 2008

Hillsborough parents will soon be able to sign up for a new school district e-mail listserv. ...more

November 10, 2008

Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful is competing with other environmental organizations to collect as many retired cell phones as possible and fill its coffers with $5,000 in cash. ...more

November 10, 2008

The cost of providing cell phones to about 150 of the Highlands County commissioners' 400 employees might be reduced under the first ever written cell phone policy, which is under review now by the county commissioners. ...more

October 28, 2008

Teens from local high schools got a lesson in safe driving Tuesday and, hopefully, the motivation to persuade others to put down their cell phones and buckle up. ...more

October 22, 2008

Joe Soto, general manager of an advertising firm in Philadelphia, has a complicated relationship with his BlackBerry e-mail phone. ...more

September 29, 2008

Three people have been arrested for allegedly writing bad checks on the town of Eatonville's main bank account. ...more

September 28, 2008

There is a Grim Reaper painted on the hood of the new Pasco County Sheriff's Office vehicle. ...more

September 13, 2008

David Broadhurst and Lisa Lauver were in a room at La Quinta Inns & Suites on North 30th Street on Tuesday night when they heard a knock on the door about 9:30, police said. ...more

September 10, 2008

A 15-year-old Sebring High School boy was in the care of the Department of Juvenile Justice on Friday after sheriff's investigators say he was caught in school with marijuana for distribution and then escaped out of the D.A.R.E. van and was recaptured. ...more

August 30, 2008