Explosions at a propane facility forced thousands of people to evacuate early Sunday, and witnesses described the sky lighting up in the glow of an enormous fireball before turning black with billowing smoke. One firefighter died, officials said. ...more

August 11, 2008

Board votes 3-0 to approve millage rate of 7.78 ...more

July 30, 2008

It's not going to be an easy year. That's the word from the members of the Hernando County School Board, who voted 3-0 Tuesday during their first budget hearing to approve a proposed millage rate of 7.78, which will generate $84.4 million in tax revenues at 95 percent collections. ...more

July 30, 2008

Five businesses have closed in the last year; storeowners complain of high rent, fees. ...more

June 29, 2008

BROOKSVILLE In 2002, three children, ages 4, 5 and 7, told Pasco County deputies Thomas Wolverton had touched them inappropriately. ...more

June 19, 2008

It's almost summer. The pool in my town is open, the kids are itching to get to camp and, more often than not, we're cooking dinner on the grill. ...more

June 15, 2008

When I was 10 years old my family moved from the big, dirty, steel-mill city of Gary, Ind., to the sleepy little village of Rosebush, Mich. — population 2,000, if you counted every farm family in a 10-mile radius. ...more

June 15, 2008

On Independence Day 2008 there likely will be neither rockets' red glare nor bombs bursting in air in the night sky above the city. ...more

May 17, 2008

Bored with the same old look in its ads, Bradenton-based Bealls department stores put out the word that it is looking locally for fresh faces. ...more

February 19, 2008

The name says it all - Anytime Fitness means those looking for a workout can do so 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at the exercise club. ...more

February 6, 2008