Harry Bolyard has owned the same violin longer than the average person will live - 85 years. He was 10 years old when his dad bought it for him, so that makes this feisty fiddler a 95-year-old. ...more

December 27, 2009

Firefighters believe an unattended candle started a fire that destroyed a Lealman mobile home on Christmas Eve. ...more

December 25, 2009

Two managers of the Villa Del Sol Mobile Home Park were arrested Tuesday on warrants charging battery and burglary against a 91-year-old resident. ...more

December 23, 2009

A transient was sentenced to five years in prison this morning in connection with the strangulation of a man in Clearwater in 2008. ...more

December 22, 2009

No charges will be filed against the parents of a Valrico toddler who fell through an opening in a septic tank and drowned last month. Luis Martinez, 2, was reported missing Nov. 27 from his home at 4114 Silver Lane, and searchers found his body the next day in a septic tank near the front of the small mobile home park where he lived. ...more

December 9, 2009

At the end of Thursday's wake, Juan Martinez and his wife, Rosalina Ramirez, stood in front of the open casket where their 2-year-old son lay. ...more

December 4, 2009

County code inspectors on Monday swept through a mobile home park where a 2-year-old child died after falling into an uncapped septic tank Friday, and they found another improperly covered septic tank. ...more

December 1, 2009

When the Florida Department of Transportation staff outnumbers residents at a public hearing, it's a pretty good indicator that the road project will not be a controversial one. ...more

November 6, 2009

Give Hillsborough County Commissioners Al Higginbotham and Kevin White credit for trying to find a site for a homeless facility. ...more

October 23, 2009

Sachiyo Takada of Japan and Jim Bailey of the United States were the winners of the five-day International Shuffleboard Association's World Singles Tournament. ...more

October 22, 2009