Former New Hampshire Republican Sen. Bob Smith formally announced his run for Florida's open U.S. Senate seat this week, two months after filing the legal documents. ...more

June 10, 2009

If you're crazy about fresh strawberries and don't mind getting your fingers stained with berry juice, you can save some money by visiting one of several farms in the area now open for U-pick. ...more

March 25, 2009

If you're crazy about fresh strawberries and don't mind getting your fingers stained with strawberry juice, you can save some money by visiting one of several strawberry farms in the Plant City area now open for U-pick. ...more

March 20, 2009

Area strawberry fields were hit with the coldest temperatures of the season last week, but growers used sprinklers to limit damage to berries and blooms. ...more

January 28, 2009

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. ...more

August 27, 2008

PLANT CITY - Last year, longtime strawberry grower Carl Grooms' 188 acres were rezoned for residential. Now it looks like his farmland on County Line Road may not sprout houses after all. ...more

February 6, 2008

It is a sight familiar to East Hillsborough early birds who rise in time to see strawberry fields and orange groves transformed on some winter days into sparkling ice sculptures. ...more

January 9, 2008

Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity. ...more

January 6, 2008