Enter The Central Tampa News & Tribune's Summer Camp Photo Contest and you could win tickets to the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa. One runner-up will receive four (4) tickets to Lowry Park Zoo. ...more

June 13, 2008

The walk the school district has suggested children take down Cain Road to the bus stop is long, narrow and flanked by drainage ditches. Neighbors in the Woodmont community off Gunn Highway are fighting the proposal, which is part of a broader plan the district has to reduce the number of bus stops countywide. The Hillsborough County school district is starting the second year of sweeping transportation changes designed to make the busing system more efficient. Officials introduced new bus routes and bus stops last year to southern Hillsborough. This year, they are looking at south and central Tampa and northwestern Hillsborough. John Franklin, general director of transportation, said the district has too many stops. The district wants eventually to have "universal" bus stops, where the bus goes to one location for elementary, middle, high school or school choice pickups. More than 90,000 children ride district buses daily. Franklin met with parents at Sickles, Chamberlain and Farnell recently to give an overview of the plan and let them find out if their children's stops would change. Barbara Boler, who has a son in middle school, didn't expect any surprises but learned her neighborhood would lose its four elementary and three middle and high school stops for one new stop at the corner of Gunn Highway and Cain Road. Her discovery wound up mobilizing neighbors who are afraid the new stop will endanger their children. They invited Franklin to come to see for himself, and he met with about a dozen parents in Woodmont Wednesday morning. ...more

June 4, 2008

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May 9, 2008

City neighborhoods mostly reflected statewide outcomes in the Jan. 29 primary, but there were a few differences. ...more

February 7, 2008

The "Carrollwood Express" is vanishing, but waiters and hospital workers will get a break with new late-night service under a package of route changes approved Monday by the county's bus agency. ...more

February 4, 2008

Police are looking for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man Thursday afternoon after words were exchanged at an intersection. ...more

February 1, 2008

TAMPA - Police are looking for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man this afternoon in the Belmont Heights Estates neighborhood of Central Tampa after an exchange of words at an intersection. ...more

January 31, 2008

Elections officials in Hillsborough County and across Florida reported only minor complaints about voting problems Tuesday. ...more

January 30, 2008

Clockwise from top left, Commissioners Jim Norman, District 5; Brian Blair, District 6; and Mark Sharpe, District 7, represent voters in all of Hillsborough County. ...more

January 27, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The Big Brothers Big Sisters organization is looking for people who would enjoy a night of free bowling and food. ...more

January 26, 2008