The communities located in the six-square-mile area just west of the University of South Florida's Tampa campus once represented gross crime, blight, decay and poverty. Last week, with more than 1,300 people in attendance, the 3,000-member USF Area Community Civic Association, Inc. (USFACCA) commemorated its 20th year of success by honoring 35 of its "unsung heroes." Today, their accomplishments stand as a case study of leadership, community organization and cooperation. ...more

October 22, 2009

A Republican lawmaker wants the Justice Department to investigate ACORN, a community organization under fire for several voter-registration fraud cases. ...more

September 15, 2009

His former wife calls him a deadbeat dad. A state prosecutor wants him behind bars. But a local community organization says David William Earley may just be dead broke. ...more

February 6, 2009

Everybody's talking about David William Earley. His former wife calls him a deadbeat dad. A state prosecutor wants him behind bars. And now a local community organization said maybe Earley is really just dead broke. If so, said Michael Bernstein of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, the New Port Richey man is in good company. Earley, who may face prison for failure to pay a quarter-million dollars in child support and for hiding from probation officers, is like a lot of people helped by Jewish Family Services, Bernstein suggests. ...more

February 5, 2009

Top managers with Raytheon told the Agency on Bay Management on Thursday that cleaning up groundwater contamination near its St. Petersburg defense plant will take quite a while. ...more

August 15, 2008

Top managers with Raytheon told the Agency on Bay Management today that cleaning up groundwater contamination near its St Petersburg defense plant will take quite a while. ...more

August 14, 2008

A second group called on Tuesday for Florida's top mortgage regulator to step down, a day after the state's chief financial officer asked for his resignation. ...more

July 23, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- Area businesses are pitching in to benefit Gulfside Regional Hospice programs. The Ridge Road location of Fantastic Sams is donating some of the money from haircuts every Tuesday during July, according to Ashley Mann, community relations coordinator for the hospice. ...more

July 12, 2008