Letters to the editor from the Dec. 19 West Pasco edition. ...more

December 19, 2009

Traffic on Interstate 4 is flowing again after a death investigation at an overpass in Lakeland. The body of a person police believe committed suicide was blocking the westbound lane of Interstate 4 in Lakeland. ...more

December 16, 2009

Four years ago, Pasco County commissioners let Florida turnpike officials put off planning for a link between the Suncoast Parkway and the county's planned Ridge Road extension. ...more

December 11, 2009

A 12-year-old girl died this morning after she was thrown from a vehicle on an Interstate 75 overpass and plummeted to the busy U.S. 301 beneath, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

August 13, 2009

A New York City woman says her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle. ...more

June 5, 2009

St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue is asking drivers to avoid 28th Street between Eighth Avenue South and 16th Avenue South because of an overturned tanker. The wreck has also closed the 28th Street exit from Interstate 275 south since about 10 a.m. today. Assistant Fire Chief Bill Jolley said a hazardous-materials team is still cleaning up the scene as of 2:15 p.m. ...more

April 30, 2009

Tuesday's expressway authority meeting is promising to be livelier than usual. South Tampa businesses say they're not happy with plans by the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority to extend the Selmon Crosstown Expressway to Gandy Bridge. ...more

April 13, 2009

40-year-old woman was seriously injured after her sport utility vehicle overturned on the U.S. 92 ramp to Interstate 4, tossing her over a concrete railing onto the shoulder of the interstate. Gigi Laneda Bratcher of Tampa was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where she was listed in serious condition after the 12:43 a.m. wreck, the Florida Highway Patrol said this morning. ...more

April 3, 2009

State police are investigating the death of a man killed Wednesday night when he was hit by a car on Interstate 4 in Lakeland. ...more

March 19, 2009

Police are investigating whether a man who plunged onto a city street from an Interstate 4 overpass today jumped or fell accidentally. ...more

March 5, 2009