This recession and/or inflation that we are experiencing may cause some of us to reduce some of our household expenses in order to have a little money left until the next payday. Most of us living here in Florida use certified pest control to take care of those little critters that want to invade our homes. That is one expense that you probably should keep and not try to use the DIY (Do it yourself) bug bombs. Almost yearly some homes or apartments are blown to pieces because too many bombs were set off without turning off ignition sources. ...more

June 5, 2008

TAMPA - Don't be alarmed if explosions are heard Wednesday and Thursday at MacDill Air Force Base—it's just a test, officials said. ...more

June 3, 2008

MASON, Ohio - Robbie "Kaptain" Knievel, son of the late daredevil Evel Knievel, successfully jumped over 24 delivery trucks Saturday night at the site of one of his father's most famous stunts. ...more

May 25, 2008

A two-alarm fire was under control in less than hour today and did not threaten a nearby Eagle Lake elementary school, Polk County Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

May 5, 2008

A former Iranian president has said exporting violence to other countries is "treason" against Islam and Iran's 1979 revolution, an apparent accusation that the country's hard-line rulers are engineering unrest abroad. ...more

May 4, 2008

Investigators said a man found in a burning house early this morning committed suicide. ...more

February 24, 2008

Landfill Not Compatible I have read with interest all the articles relating to the landfill proposed outside Dade City (Richland) and have attended a meeting where landfill opponent Carl Roth and project manager John Arnold have spoken. ...more

February 24, 2008

So this is what it looks like when the maverick becomes The Man. Sen. John McCain was sitting in the front of his fancy-pants front-runner's plane, trying to get comfortable. He fidgeted, occasionally lapsing into un-McCainlike blandness: "There is a process in place that will formalize the methodology," he said in describing how his free-form campaign style will assume the discipline expected of a probable Republican standard-bearer. ...more

February 17, 2008

Investigators are probing what ignited a fire at a city Parks Department facility across the street from Lowry Park Zoo on Saturday. ...more

February 16, 2008

Six months ago, Adrian Moran Gomez made an excruciating choice. He said goodbye to his wife and four young children in Honduras. He left them behind to work alongside his father and brothers in Lakeland. ...more

January 17, 2008