The family of a 13-year-old boy whose strangled body was found in a county park almost two years ago has filed a lawsuit claiming the park wasn't safe. ...more

November 28, 2007

Tree, As In Christmas The consensus of the Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce not to promote an event as "faith-based" slipped in the censorship of the word "Christmas" from its first "Holiday Tree Lighting" coming up Saturday in a Pasco County park. ...more

November 26, 2007

Jack Brockhurst remembers looking for shooting stars with his cousins in a rural area of New York as a child and feeling the magic of the heavens. These days, the pull of the skies is every bit as intense for the adult Brockhurst as it was for the child. ...more

November 14, 2007

DADE CITY - Funeral services for a Dade City police dispatcher who died in a car crash last week will be held Saturday, the dispatcher's mother said. ...more

October 7, 2007

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County supervisory park ranger was arrested today on a charge he possessed child pornography, according to the FBI. ...more

October 6, 2007

A female gopher tortoise left her home territory at the periphery of Tampa International Airport on Monday afternoon bound for a much safer habitat. ...more

September 25, 2007

GIBSONTON - After having been warned twice in two weeks, 14 men were arrested Tuesday and accused of illegally picking saw palmetto berries at a county park, officials said. ...more

September 5, 2007