On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the Board of County Commissioners will consider temporarily reducing the impact tax back to 2001 levels. ...more

November 7, 2009

Call The Waaaambulance Brian Blair wants his reputation back. And which reputation would that be, I wonder? The one he had when he got paid to deceive the public? Oh - let me clarify that. Of course I'm talking about his stint as a professional wrestler, not his term on the County Commission. Is the reputation he seeks to have restored the one he has as a litigant against a local restaurant, where he sought damages for a fall he took there? ... ...more

March 29, 2009

A reported abduction in North Port on Monday night touched off a multi-agency search that briefly shut down Interstate 75 as authorities scrambled to find a 44-year-old woman, who was eventually located in a local restaurant with her alleged abductor, a 17-year-old boy. ...more

March 17, 2009

Did you change all 28 of your clocks and other timed devices, even the watch in your drawer that you only wear on special occasions and the clock in the spare bedroom that you only go in when guests are coming? ...more

March 14, 2009

Name of Business: No Frills Grill Address of Business: ...more

February 15, 2009

Somber yet optimistic, Barack Obama was sworn in Tuesday as the nation's first African-American president, declaring it time for Americans to "pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin the work of remaking America." ...more

January 21, 2009

A local fitness trainer is suing two former Tampa Bay Buccaneers players, saying they beat him and broke his jaw in the parking lot of a local restaurant in October. ...more

January 3, 2009

A local fitness trainer has sued two former Tampa Bay Buccaneers players, claiming they beat him and broke his jaw in the parking lot of a local restaurant in October. ...more

January 2, 2009

If Thursday night's Planning and Zoning Board meeting is any barometer of things to come for Wal-Mart, the retail chain might face friends and foes alike next week when it goes before the City Commission. ...more

October 18, 2008

Ed Zehner had never run a deli before he opened Ma's Kitchen. He admitted it was a decision he made more than 18 months ago "on a whim." ...more

September 29, 2008