For years, city residents and even city officials have been frustrated by the slow code enforcement process, which can take months or years to resolve some cases. ...more

January 20, 2008

Kelli Ackett has tried all the usual means to sell her house. She tried to sell it by herself. She held yard sales to try to attract buyers. She listed it with Zephyrhills real estate broker Bill Nye, who has put the property on the Internet and in local newspapers. ...more

January 18, 2008

The crime scene - a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps - makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated. ...more

January 2, 2008

Believe it or not, they wanted to franchise this. Enterprising fans of Skipper's Smokehouse have made the pitch more than once. What a great idea, they proposed, to open a place just like this in Miami. Fort Myers. Palm Beach. ...more

December 27, 2007

TAMPA - With the rubble of Central Park Village serving as a backdrop and the fog-shrouded skyline of downtown Tampa peering over the oak trees, an already gutted Meacham Alternative School started to fall this morning. ...more

November 30, 2007

They say you will know. ...more

November 30, 2007

After the Safety Harbor City Commission heard objections from neighboring property owners, it approved a 6,560-square-foot addition to Cypress Meadows Community Church. ...more

November 24, 2007

While awake in our bed a few mornings ago, for some unexplainable reason my thoughts drifted back to a Thanksgiving when I was a scrawny, knobby-kneed lad of 6 and a first-grader at St. Monica Elementary School in Berwyn, Pa. ...more

November 21, 2007

Most days, only the sound of traffic breaks the silence among the hand-carved headstones and finely polished granite markers mingling among silk and fresh flowers in the 121-year-old Hackney Cemetery. ...more

November 17, 2007

Most days, only the sound of traffic breaks the silence among the hand-carved headstones and finely polished granite markers mingling among silk and fresh flowers in the 121-year-old Hackney Cemetery. ...more

November 15, 2007