Local teenager Shawnee Lester, 17, has been selected to represent Florida at the 2009 Miss American Teen Pageant. ...more

October 15, 2009

The father of a suburban Philadelphia woman who faked her own abduction and fled with her daughter to Disney World has been ordered to stand trial in connection with a scuffle with TV cameramen. ...more

September 26, 2009

Florida health officials said this morning that state laboratories testing samples for swine flu have sent three suspected samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The samples came from cases in Broward, Lee and Orange counties, they said. ...more

April 30, 2009

PLANT CITY The Plant City Community Choir is gearing up for a performance during the April 17 at the Relay for Life at Plant City High School. Choir director Joe Mendolia is looking for three or four new singers to join the group. ...more

April 6, 2009

Attention: dancers, singers, poets, bands and comedians. The DreamBuilders Association of America is looking for you. ...more

March 25, 2009

Despite the downturn in the economy, the Temple Terrace Relay for Life committee is bent on raising the bar in its fight against cancer. ...more

March 24, 2009

As the Relay for Life began at 1 p.m. Saturday, volunteers had raised only 25 percent of their $40,000 goal, said Denise Benavides, the American Cancer Society's unit director of the Hardee and Highlands units. ...more

March 16, 2009

Workers at the Pinellas County Animal Services shelter first named the somewhat independent-minded puppy Petey. ...more

February 24, 2009

Workers at the Pinellas County Animal Services shelter first named the somewhat independent minded puppy Petey. But on further review, Mickey might be more appropriate. ...more

February 23, 2009

The survivor of a drunk-driving crash on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway is facing a serious surgery and a custody battle, her grandmother said Saturday. ...more

February 21, 2009