Jennifer Faircloth and Jesse Lingerfelt selected the Florida Strawberry Festival for their first date four years ago. So when festival promoters announced an essay contest to pick a couple to wed at the 2009 event, Jennifer picked up a pen. ...more

March 11, 2009

Though Emily Hoy officially signed with Liberty University a couple of weeks ago, her desire to do so has been years in the making. ...more

March 4, 2009

Special Olympians from a half-dozen eastern Hillsborough County schools converged on Durant High recently to gauge the success of months of training for this month's regional competition. ...more

March 4, 2009

PLANT CITY Fans of strawberries and the Florida Opry are in luck. The opry will stage a show March 6 at he Florida Strawberry Festival grounds. ...more

February 27, 2009

The Florida Strawberry Festival got under way this morning amid sunny skies and eager crowds. ...more

February 26, 2009

A soldier from Plant City who survived a 15-month tour in Iraq was lost overboard and presumed dead while on a tugboat doing a training mission off North Carolina. ...more

February 25, 2009

Few people are fortunate enough to be living out their dreams while working in a position that they love. ...more

February 25, 2009

The Plant City High School cheerleaders won the Western Conference cheer competition, outscoring 23 other schools in the process, to take their first title in school history. ...more

February 25, 2009

The Plant City High softball team lost one of the best players in program history when Kendall Dawson graduated and headed to play for the University of Alabama. ...more

February 25, 2009

A soldier from Plant City stationed out of Fort Eustis, Va., is missing and presumed dead after he reportedly fell overboard Sunday during an Army exercise off the North Carolina coast. A 40-hour search by the Coast Guard was suspended. ...more

February 24, 2009