Citizens working to devise a plan for their community say they want assurances that the rural character of the area won't be destroyed by the county's plans for a high-tech corridor along Interstate 4. ...more

November 11, 2009

Abraham Issa spent $100,000 to improve access to 31st Avenue from U.S. 41, about two blocks south of Causeway Boulevard, so he could get a permit to build a Shell service station. ...more

February 15, 2009

The state thought a new median on U.S. 41 would improve safety, but business owners in the area complain it decreased access to their stores and caused confusion and lost business. Now, the state says it will address at least part of the problem brought on by the $42 million widening of Causeway Boulevard, which is entering its second year. ...more

February 12, 2009

When Bill Jones got the call about the bull, he had no idea what he was in for."I thought maybe it was something that got hit in the road," Jones says. "All they told me was that it was 500 pounds." For the past three years, Jones has been driving a tow truck for Stepps Towing. Yesterday afternoon, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says it needed Jones' tow truck to cart off a bull it found off 59th Street in Tampa. ...more

July 31, 2008

Images of police with box cutters, slicing and discarding homeless people's tents as a fire and safety threat, cast a national spotlight on St. Petersburg's treatment of its neediest residents. ...more

November 2, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Video images of police wielding box cutters, slicing and discarding homeless people's tents deemed a fire and public safety threat, cast a national spotlight on St. Petersburg's treatment of some of its neediest residents. Now, a tent city preparing to open on Dec. 1 is aimed at avoiding a possible repeat of the widely publicized tent-slashing incident in January. ...more

October 31, 2007