TAMPA - Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that damaged a home in the 1500 block of East Palifox Street, Tampa Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

July 2, 2008

Dane Jenkins admits he was a bit of a runt growing up. His small frame - 112 pounds at high school graduation - earned him constant teasing as a kid. ...more

June 24, 2008

In a case that could have statewide implications, lawyers examined witnesses for nearly eight hours Monday in a lawsuit that will decide whether the Hillsborough County school district has to pay for off-site road improvements when a new school is built. ...more

June 24, 2008

An oversight that let a man convicted of molesting children dodge a sex offender label was corrected in an emergency hearing Friday. ...more

June 20, 2008

Attention all homeowners of Sun 'N Lakes south, there is an opportunity for the community to get the sidewalk extended to the south along Sun 'N Lakes Boulevard, which will give those who live south of Sweetheart Avenue, safer walking. The existing sidewalk gets a lot of use by those who get their daily exercise by walking along that half mile that goes to Highway 29. ...more

June 19, 2008

PORT RICHEY - One motorcyclist is injured and another dead after separate crashes moments apart early this morning. ...more

June 16, 2008

Lost Without The GPS This past weekend, the PW and I spent an awful amount of time learning how to get around on the streets of an unfamiliar location without our navigation device. We were in the Ellenton area where the tanker truck destroyed the bridge over State Road 301 on the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 last week. Our motel was located in the Prime Outlets Mall area, within a half mile of the accident. Thank goodness we had a few friends who were familiar with the area and gave us maps to use to get around most of the congestion. Even so, it was impossible not to get into some standstill traffic jams. But before we left Sunday morning, the authorities had devised routes and some rerouting of traffic, which made traffic flow almost normally. ...more

June 12, 2008

A Clearwater man died Sunday afternoon when his motorcycle ran off the road and tossed him into a ditch. ...more

June 5, 2008

Items of interest from the May 27 Plant City Commission meeting include: ...more

June 4, 2008

CONSIDER THE PALATE UNLEASHED It's safe to say that this year's Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival, held last weekend at the Don CeSar Beach Resort in St. Pete Beach, went much smoother than last year's inaugural event, which suffered from canceled seminars and complicated parking arrangements. As a spinoff of the massively successful South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami Beach, it also suffered last year from expectations that the Tampa Bay version would approximate the same style and flair. ...more

May 20, 2008