Throngs of churchgoers dismissed early today from services will shop en masse for groceries to stock the shelves of local food banks. ...more

November 23, 2008

I'm a big lover of garden art — the funky old rusted kind you find on trash heaps. There's something about vines snaking through chipped filigree and cherub-faced pansies popping up (surprise!) from toilet bowls that I find appealing. ...more

November 21, 2008

Bert Jacobs, co-founder of the Life Is Good apparel company, is headed to FishHawk Ranch on Saturday for an appearance at the Life Is Good Pumpkin Fest charity event. ...more

October 24, 2008

A Hillsborough County middle school teacher was among 13 people netted in a weekend prostitution sting in Polk County. ...more

October 20, 2008

The Polk County Sheriff's Office used the Web site Craigslist to set up a prostitution sting that netted 13 arrests including a Hillsborough County middle school teacher. ...more

October 19, 2008

Needing a obstetrician or gynecologist? Tired of driving to Brandon or Tampa to find one? ...more

September 24, 2008

BUSINESS NOTES PHOTOGRAPHERS LAUDED: Edward Booth and Betty Huth, owners of Huth and Booth Portrait Gallery, 11711 Nikki View Drive, Brandon, received the Florida Service Award for service to the profession at the Florida Professional Photographers Annual Convention in Orlando Aug. 27. Huth also received the Distinguished Award in the print competition. Huth and Booth are members of the Riverview and greater Brandon chambers of commerce and the Brandon '86 Rotary Club. For information, call (813) 571-2100 or go to www.hbphoto .com. ...more

September 24, 2008

Some Brandon residents would like one of the area's newest public schools to be named in honor of one of its oldest residents. ...more

September 17, 2008

Hillsborough County is forging full-steam ahead with school construction on the land Newland Communities bought from Pulte Homes, known as Lake Hutto, but the developer plans a period of watchful waiting before building any homes. ...more

September 17, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office SWAT team responded this afternoon to what was said to be an armed burglary suspect who had barricaded himself into an east Hillsborough County house. ...more

September 12, 2008