Fugitive Rayford died accidentally, report states ...more

November 10, 2009

If you are one of the thousands of Hillsborough County voters who get to the end of their ballots this election and are stopped in your tracks at the Soil and Water Conservation District race, you are not alone. This easily is the most obscure race on the ballot, and the candidates the most unfamiliar. ...more

October 18, 2008

The presentation of Hillsborough County's Ralph Hughes Moral Courage Award today will be free of controversy if the latest recipient has anything to say about the matter. ...more

October 15, 2008

The presentation of Hillsborough County's Ralph Hughes Moral Courage Award on Wednesday will be free of controversy if the latest recipient has anything to say about the matter. Dave Brown, who will receive the award at the county commission meeting, said he will not mention the board's recent decision to rename the honor for Hughes, a conservative political activist and campaign contributor. ...more

October 14, 2008

Kevin Beckner likes to say that he is the best choice to win the District 6 County Commission seat because his two Democratic opponents in the primary have together lost nine elections. ...more

August 10, 2008

A local engineer and political activist says the referendum language on the county mayor issue is vague and inaccurate and has filed a lawsuit to have the issue taken off November's ballot. ...more

July 8, 2008

Sydney Pollack, 73, a director and producer of popular Hollywood movies for nearly four decades, including the comedy "Tootsie," and who won Academy Awards for "Out of Africa," died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He had cancer. ...more

May 27, 2008

Though this country has made great strides in overcoming racial prejudice and stereotyping groups of people, those things still exist, especially amongst the poor, uneducated and rural Americans. Sebring is rural America and it exists right here in our home town, like it or not. ...more

February 21, 2008

Sam Rashid is a naturalized American born in Pakistan. He is a Brandon businessman and political activist. He left Pakistan at age 9 and has been in the United States for 25 years. Up until a couple of years ago, he visited his homeland nearly every year. ...more

November 4, 2007