Repurposing household throwaways to serve a higher calling as yard art may be its own reward, but the payoff just got bigger. ...more

October 25, 2009

People around the country who used excessive amounts of denture cream are claiming in lawsuits that zinc in the products caused serious nerve damage. ...more

September 18, 2009

Thieves have raided a cemetery, making off with 115 vases valued at about $42,000 in the last two weeks. ...more

October 4, 2008

A man climbed to the top of a utility pole Friday in an effort to steal copper and was jolted by a high-voltage wire and burned over 50 percent of his body, officials said. ...more

August 2, 2008

A 22-year-old Hudson man was arrested Monday, accused of breaking in to a home and stealing copper. ...more

July 30, 2008

A 22-year-old Hudson man was arrested Monday , accused of breaking into a home and stealing copper. Sometime between July 2 and July 17, Kenneth Andrew Adams, of 11517 State Road 52, Lot 93, stole a drill, ladder, two copper bowls, a copper pitcher and several pounds of copper tile roofing from a home on Ivy Lane, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

July 29, 2008

TAMPA - Hillsborough County Fire Rescue units are on the scene at 4502 Golfwood Blvd. for a gas leak in a vacant house. First responders reported the building had experienced an explosion but no fire was seen, according to a news release. ...more

July 9, 2008

A Florida man who has a dozen cardboard boxes filled with items from shipwrecks may have to turn over some of his treasures after inviting the state to see his finds. ...more

June 1, 2008

LAKE PLACID — All 2,000 customers of the Town of Lake Placid Water System were mailed a "Drinking Water Warning" on Monday, but according to the notice and Gary Freeman, director of utilities, the town's drinking water is safe. Freeman told the town council at Monday's meeting that he failed to submit lead and copper sample results from June through September 2007, in time to meet an Oct. 10 deadline. ...more

December 13, 2007