Rose Circle hosted a combined circles meeting on Feb. 4 at the Tampa Garden Club on Bayshore Boulevard. Patti Schaefer, from Annie's Garden Shack in Lutz, discussed container gardening with herbs. The circles then split for separate business meetings. ...more

February 11, 2009

When Omar Almonte was a teenager growing up in New York, he discovered the art of tagging. Even though he wasn't out spraying graffiti and running away like his friends, he practiced on paper and eventually on a wall in his parents' shed. ...more

February 11, 2009

Cash4Gold.com, a Florida metal refinery offering money to people who mail in unwanted gold, doesn't always provide boatloads of money for customers. Customers have lodged hundreds of complaints with the state Attorney General's Office and the Better Business Bureau. ...more

February 10, 2009

Hillsborough Fire Rescue workers are investigating a fire that caused extensive damage to a home in Lutz on Sunday night. A neighbor called about 9 p.m. to report the fire at the single-story home at 18410 Tomlinson Drive. It took firefighters a half-hour to get the flames in the attic under control, Capt. Bruce Delk said. No one was injured. ...more

February 9, 2009

When God speaks, James Dodzweit listens - even when he is suggesting that Dodzweit abandon a comfortable job at a megachurch to start a new one in a school cafeteria. ...more

February 8, 2009

In 1960, when Russia's Khrushchev observed John Kennedy's cowardly abandonment of America's promise to provide air cover for the Cuban exile invader force at Bay of Pigs, he perceived Kennedy as spineless and began moving Russian missiles into Cuba. We were brought to the brink of nuclear war. ...more

February 6, 2009

For 10 years, Tampa Tribune credit manager Charles T. Wilson used his job to steal more than $1 million from the newspaper and its advertisers, federal investigators say. ...more

February 5, 2009

Shannon Pierson died of a drug overdose on March 3, 2007. The night before, the 19-year-old had snorted a crushed oxycodone pill given to her by Max Lutz, prosecutors said. ...more

February 5, 2009

Shannon Pierson died of a drug overdose on March 3, 2007. The night before, the 19-year-old had snorted a crushed oxycodone pill given to her by Max Lutz, prosecutors said. On Tuesday, a Pasco County jury deliberated for more than two hours before finding Lutz not guilty of delivery of a controlled substance. ...more

February 4, 2009

Several hundred people paid the Namaste Yoga Studio in Lutz a visit to sample the flavors of Yogart. The first-ever event put the spotlight on the arts, yoga and other creative expressions. ...more

February 4, 2009