Highlands County will need to add 11,000 jobs by 2015 when the population will be nearing 110,000 people, according to its economic development director. ...more

March 29, 2009

Police in Ohio say a woman has been charged with child endangering after another motorist reported she was both breast-feeding a youngster and talking on a phone while driving. ...more

February 28, 2009

Firefighters call it "The Palace." Built in 2000, Fire Station 1 on Dairy Road is a penthouse compared with the city's downtown fire station. ...more

February 21, 2009

St. Petersburg police were investigating Wednesday night how a 6-month-old baby received second-degree burns over 18 percent of her body. ...more

February 18, 2009

The back-to-back blasts of cold last week hit Hillsborough County's tropical fish farmers hard, costing them more than $1.7 million in dead aquarium fish and snails, according to preliminary reports. ...more

February 10, 2009

Farmers across the state still are assessing damage from last week's string of freezes, but early reports show green beans, potatoes and squash were hit by the frigid weather. ...more

January 27, 2009

Farmers across the state are still assessing damage from last week's string of freezes, but early reports show green beans, potatoes and squash were hit by the frigid temperatures. ...more

January 26, 2009

Pinellas County deputies say a used automobile dealer was rolling back odometers on vehicles he was selling. ...more

December 19, 2008

"Let them eat cake" is how Tampa City Councilman John Dingfelder characterized his four colleagues' refusal to listen to hundreds of citizens on the TECO franchise agreement. Forty-two TECO customers pointed out numerous shortcomings in the franchise agreement, while Councilwoman Mary Mulhern held up a huge stack of letters pleading for a better deal. ...more

December 9, 2008

From a challenge to the new sprinkler ordinance by a nationwide homebuilder to an investigation of payroll discrepancies in the police department, the cost of safeguarding this city from legal action has nearly doubled in the past year. ...more

August 28, 2008