Delayed a week by torrential rains, the Tampa Downtown Market opened Friday at Franklin and Madison streets with more vendors, a bigger variety of food and fresh produce, and more space for shoppers to roam. ...more

October 24, 2009

Volunteers participating in a coastal cleanup Saturday along the Courtney Campbell Causeway made an unexpected discovery - the mutilated carcasses of a goat and two chickens. ...more

September 20, 2009

Depends on whose ox is being gored. Our media darling Barack Obama quits his job way early and did not even attend most of the meetings scheduled before he quit, but that's fine, no problem. How can a media God do wrong? ...more

July 12, 2009

If we had to hazard a guess, we would imagine 99 out of a 100 people who have driven by Mittye P. Locke Elementary School over the years assumed its namesake, like many of the other people for whom schools in Pasco County are named, had long ago passed away. Until Wednesday, however, that wasn't true. On that day Mrs. Locke, one of the pioneers of Pasco public education, died, a little less than two months before what would have been her 100th birthday. ...more

February 28, 2009

No one called Hillsborough County deputies to get their goats back after the animals were impounded Wednesday morning along the Veterans Expressway. ...more

February 5, 2009

More than a few motorists did a double-take Wednesday morning as they sped by a herd of goats wandering along the Veterans Expressway. ...more

February 5, 2009

A herd of about eight goats spent part of this morning on the Veterans Expressway until Hillsborough County deputies shooed the animals away. ...more

February 4, 2009

It could be the ugliest spot on the Carrollwood Day School campus, but students in the school's new environmental club plan to make over a mucky, trash-clogged retention pond. ...more

February 4, 2009

There is an old Russian fable, with different versions in other countries, about two poor peasants, Ivan and Boris. The only difference between them was that Boris had a goat and Ivan didn't. One day, Ivan came upon a strange-looking lamp and, when he rubbed it, a genie appeared. She told him that she could grant him just one wish, but it could be anything in the world. ...more

November 28, 2008

Animal control officers have seized five horses and a goat from a Sarasota County woman who has been cited numerous times for failing to take care of her pets. ...more

November 6, 2008