Pinellas Park police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck one car, and then another, on 66th Street this morning. ...more

June 22, 2009

When you stop and think about all the food stored in your kitchen, it's hard not to get a little panicky. ...more

May 9, 2009

NBC is renewing "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for another year. ...more

April 14, 2009

Someone who bought a Florida Lotto ticket from a Sun City Center grocery store should be very happy right about now. ...more

April 10, 2009

The Santa who every December would visit our county commissioners, Richard Conover passed away this December. Our Christmas card greeting card sent to Richard at the nursing home in Clewiston was returned, marked "Deceased." A phone call verified the sad notation. This gregarious, fun loving, sometimes serious personality that so marked Richard is gone, but the many little jokes and jabs, directed mainly at our county commissioners, will linger on as we recall them. Many of us will miss getting an unexpected birthday greeting card from Richard, accompanied with a line or two, kidding (with kindness,) the fact that we are one year older. Why Richard's family decided not to have a memorial service to honor Richard's time amongst us remains a mystery. We hope that this little notice will remind people of this big bear of a man, whose gruff demeanor sometimes masked his "soft" side. ...more

January 10, 2009

The Bucs on Thursday ended the mystery regarding who will replace Monte Kiffin as their defensive coordinator by naming secondary coach Raheem Morris Kiffin's successor. ...more

December 25, 2008

When is a begonia a dragon wing begonia and when is it an angel wing begonia? ...more

December 18, 2008

Can you help solve a mystery? For me it concerns Lakeview Drive, from Jackson Heights Road to Veterans Beach. A couple months after that sidewalk was built, a number of side squares had to be replaced. A few weeks before Hurricane Charley arrived, I walked and counted 47 squares broken. After the third hurricane left I walked and counted 93 broken squares. I didn't know that a hurricane could break sidewalks. ...more

December 10, 2008

A Missouri teenager who was kidnapped and held for four years said he figured his days were numbered when his abductor decided to take another boy, according to transcripts from a television interview released Wednesday to The Associated Press. ...more

September 25, 2008

Teachers are on the lookout like never before at Gulf Middle School, watching how students conduct themselves, handing out tickets and daily taking names. ...more

September 17, 2008