Lowell Cain is one of the cowboys in the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office's agricultural unit. ...more

June 26, 2008

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office agricultural deputies show off new home where even stray buffalo can roam. ...more

June 25, 2008

TAMPA - An officer was justified in using a Taser to detain a neighbor's son and the teenager's friend, although the officer's language was "less than professional," according to a Tampa Police Department review of the incident. ...more

June 25, 2008

More than 120 children, ages 2 through 13, cast their lines in the Brandon Elks Lodge's fifth annual Hooked on Fishing Not Drugs event May 17 at Doug Holmberg's property on Gallagher Road in Dover. ...more

June 21, 2008

The e-mail all week and the comments on the blog have continued to focus on the recent column on the young woman lying in a hospital bed, the victim of a horrific beating and rape outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. The event itself was awful enough, but I think it is that sense of abandonment - true or untrue - that has stirred so many of you. Here are just a few of your thoughts. ...more

June 16, 2008

For 13 years, Kendall Duncan got up every morning and headed to Busch Gardens, where she and her friend Angie Frazier worked with lions, tigers and all sorts of other exotic animals. ...more

June 14, 2008

KEYSVILLE - Jean Pearce was driving Sunday night on Nichols Road when she hit an owl in the middle of the road, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 9, 2008

Tyler Metcalf plans to drum his way up and down the East Coast this summer as he makes the jump from high school senior to college freshman. ...more

May 28, 2008

Taylor Morrison is building homes priced from the $199,990s at Channing Park in Lithia, the first community the company has built from the ground up since merging Taylor Woodrow with Morrison Homes in July, says John Hennebery, vice president of sales and marketing. ...more

May 25, 2008

Newsome's Niko Anthony provided the game's only score with a great special teams play, and the Wolves defense came up with two stops in the final two minutes in a 7-0 victory against Plant City in the second half of a spring jamboree Thursday night at Newsome. ...more

May 23, 2008