Deputies have arrested a man they say robbed a Largo convenience store this morning of cash and lottery tickets after striking the cashier on the back of the head with a handgun. ...more

August 20, 2008

Any novice, looking to surprise that special someone with a homemade birthday cake, can pull it off. ...more

August 5, 2008

RESORCE, the private group that is trying to get more Pasco County residents interested in recycling, held a telephone directory recycling effort that collected more than three times the tonnage its leaders were expecting. Now, county officials need to do more to encourage people to recycle, the RESORCE leaders say. "Why shouldn't Pasco County become a leader in recycling?" Lew Corvene, the club's president, told The Suncoast News this week. ...more

August 2, 2008

Foreclosures stink. Not just for the homeowner but, as Doug Ellison will tell you, the neighbors left behind. In Ellison's situation, the house next door, 3315 Gretna Drive, has been sitting vacant since mid June. ...more

July 25, 2008

Foreclosures stink. Not just for the homeowner but, as Doug Ellison will tell you, the neighbors left behind. In Ellison's situation, the house next door, 3315 Gretna Drive, has been sitting vacant since mid June. ...more

July 25, 2008

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is my hometown. Although I haven't lived there since 1973, it's still "home" to me in the way that the places where we grow up stay fixed forever in our hearts. It's a genuine "Leave it to Beaver" kind of town where kids ride bikes along tree-lined streets, and people still go downtown to shop. ...more

June 30, 2008

Municipal sanitation crews won't be making garbage or recycling runs July 4 due to the holiday, a city spokeswoman said. ...more

June 25, 2008

Twelve Tampa-area citizens made it clear last week that despite the plethora of pornography on the Internet, community standards still exist and everything does not go. ...more

June 11, 2008

A broken compact fluorescent light bulb releases a mercury-containing powder, some of which can evaporate into the air, and is difficult to contain or clean up. ...more

May 23, 2008

Boo Weekley tells everybody that he does not know a thing about golf history. He just happened to start playing as a kid. ...more

May 10, 2008