During the program's seven-year participation in the City of Tampa Championships, Hillsborough High's boys basketball team never advanced to the tournament championship. ...more

December 23, 2008

If current projections hold, the city of Tampa will be $35 million in the hole by 2010. Major cuts in service and personnel will be inevitable. ...more

December 22, 2008

We are in the deepest recession in the last 20 years and the Hernando Board of County Commissioners is having trouble defining the meaning of "local." ...more

December 21, 2008

For 21 years, Lex Salisbury was the future of Lowry Park Zoo. The charismatic and often charming zoo chief gets credit for turning a meager collection of animals into one of the nation's finest zoos. ...more

December 19, 2008

Bloomingdale senior forward Callum Townsend scored 18 of his game-high 28 points in the first half to lead the Bulls boys to a 72-54 victory against Plant in the Outback Invitational at Berkeley Prep on Thursday. ...more

December 19, 2008

For 21 years, Lex Salisbury was the future of Lowry Park Zoo. ...more

December 18, 2008

A former employee of Lowry Park Zoo said he was told to resign or be fired after he questioned why zoo president Lex Salisbury took zoo animals and supplies home to his private Dade City ranch. ...more

December 10, 2008

A Tampa man is suing two police officers, claiming that he was falsely arrested and battered after he was escorted out of a public meeting four years ago, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in circuit court. ...more

December 10, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY Sarah Cooke thought she would be doing a walk-through of her new Habitat for Humanity home today -- until she saw the crowd of people in the driveway. She and her children, son Devin, 15, and daughter Lauren, 10, were greeted outside the home in the New Port Richey neighborhood of Moon Lake by Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Warrick Dunn. ...more

December 9, 2008

The Southwest Florida Water Management District is reaching out to community groups to answer questions about the ongoing drought, the tightened watering restrictions in the Tampa Bay area, and how residents can help. ...more

December 8, 2008