A nationally known aerobatics pilot was one of two people killed Monday in a single-engine plane crash near Enterprise Road and Old Lakeland Highway. ...more

March 10, 2009

A nationally known aerobatics pilot was one of two people killed Monday in a single-engine plane crash near Enterprise Road and Old Lakeland Highway. ...more

March 10, 2009

Columbia Restaurant owner Richard Gonzmart thought he was blessed in 2006 when someone returned a stolen bronze bust of his mother about a month after it vanished from outside the landmark Ybor City restaurant. ...more

February 5, 2008

Saturday, an employee of the Columbia Restaurant discovered that the 80-pound hollow sculpture of Richard Gonzmart's mother, Adela Hernandez Gonzmart, was gone from its sidewalk pedestal. Someone had wrenched the likeness of the restaurant family's matriarch from the marble where it had been bolted and welded after another theft in December 2005. ...more

February 4, 2008

A bald eagles' nest that has been home to families of eagles off Old Hillsborough Avenue for more than 40 years lies along the preferred route for a new Tampa Electric Co. high-voltage transmission line. ...more

January 5, 2008

SEBRING — Two houses along W. L. Kirkland Street in Avon Park sit in an otherwise vacant, large field near Lake Anoka, on the site of an unfinished development. Nearby, resident Jim Windsor believes the problem lies right between the two, or rather, there isn't enough space between the houses. "You put too many homes so close like that you're going to create a ghetto," Windsor feared. "That's not going to make it good for anybody, the town or the neighbors." ...more

October 9, 2007