Hillsborough County Fire Rescue is battling a fire at a mobile home in Ruskin that started just before 6 a.m. today. ...more

December 24, 2009

Recently I noted that the state of Florida education system was a troubling symptom of our society, then that corporations were a troubling symptom of world economy. Well, the lack of a viable educational system is a troubling symptom of our civilization. This country has grown to be the greatest nation the world has ever seen. Not that we are superior, but that previous generations had overcome significant human flaws for 300 years to provide God-given alienable rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. ...more

December 24, 2009

The apartment complex manager told authorities there was no power to the unit and that the occupant had been using candles as a light source. ...more

December 23, 2009

On Tuesday afternoon, two Clearwater Police detectives scoured the shrubs at the edge of the Publix parking lot near Gulf to Bay and Belcher Road. ...more

December 8, 2009

One family member was killed and four others were injured when the pickup they were traveling in lost control on a curve in Fort Meade this morning, overturned and struck a tree. ...more

November 25, 2009

Residents working to save a Seffner forest and the eagles that inhabit it have gotten a two-year reprieve from Tampa Electric Co. ...more

October 28, 2009

For decades, people who couldn't be identified or who died with no money for their funerals were left for the county to bury. ...more

September 17, 2009

dump truck struck a station wagon on Keystone Road in Tarpon Springs this morning, seriously injuring some occupants in the station wagon, police said. ...more

August 20, 2009

A 17-year-old juvenile was arrested Monday after reportedly stealing another man's pit bull at gunpoint. ...more

August 6, 2009

U.S. Marshals have arrested a man accused of knocking a Pasco sheriff's sergeant unconscious Monday during a traffic stop. ...more

July 15, 2009