Owners are gearing up to open a new six-bay garage along Cortez Boulevard. ...more

June 29, 2008

Almost a dozen pageant winners, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick young girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital last week. The pageant queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. ...more

June 28, 2008

TAMPA - Almost a dozen beauty queens, dazzling in their stylish dresses and impeccable makeup, plunked themselves down across from sick little girls at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital this morning. The queens painstakingly painted nails and applied blush to the girls' faces. Outside, Tampa Fire Rescue firefighters hoisted hospitalized little boys up onto the gleaming red truck. Some yanked at the steering wheel while others, in hospital pajamas and plastic firefighter helmets, climbed on the back. Some were still attached to IVs dragged around behind them. ...more

June 20, 2008

A wood-frame house that burned last week would have been a century old if it could have stood another three or four years. ...more

June 14, 2008

Fire badly damaged a two-story house here Thursday afternoon, but no one was seriously injured. ...more

May 23, 2008

Fire badly damages a house in Darby, though no one is badly hurt ...more

May 22, 2008

I would like to make a suggestion in order to save some money on gas for publicly funded vehicles. I think we should charge parents of the public school system children $10 per day to ride the bus to school since they, too, are "wasting gas." ...more

May 9, 2008

PORT RICHEY - Fire trucks blocking U.S. 19 in both directions north of Jasmine Boulevard have just been moved after emergency crews were able to stop a natural gas leak coming from the Congo River miniature golf course construction site. ...more

May 6, 2008

LAKE PLACID — As firefighters battled flames Monday and Tuesday, they kept talking about defensible space. That's a minimum 30-foot no-vegetation zone around houses, barns, outbuildings and other possessions. Two hundred feet is more desirable. ...more

February 14, 2008

Thousands braved chilly rains Saturday to attend the 11th annual Kumquat Festival, celebrating the tiny, tangy citrus fruit that's become east Pasco County's calling card. ...more

January 27, 2008