Ten east Pasco County residents were arrested Thursday on drug charges stemming from a lengthy undercover investigation by the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. Charges against some of the seven men and three women include possession and trafficking in assorted drugs, ranging from marijuana and cocaine to oxycodone. ...more

March 20, 2009

The downtown post office, a fixture since 1935, could close under a planned consolidation of facilities to cut costs, according to the U.S. Postal Service. ...more

March 4, 2009

A Sarasota man has been arrested on federal charges that he sent threatening e-mail to people, including a state representative. ...more

February 12, 2009

Mom thinks her boy is a catch, so much so she shells out 500 bucks for an ad in The Tampa Tribune. ...more

December 15, 2008

Mom thinks her boy is a catch, so much so she shells out 500 bucks for an ad in The Tampa Tribune. "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS … a WIFE for my SON," it begins. ...more

December 14, 2008

Adult movie producer Paul Little is asking a judge to let him postpone his 46-month prison sentence while his lawyers appeal his conviction on obscenity charges. Little, whose pornographic character goes by the name Max Hardcore, lives in California, but was tried in Tampa after investigators here ordered his films through the mail and downloaded them on the Internet. ...more

October 24, 2008

The evidence amassed by FBI investigators against Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said Sunday. ...more

August 4, 2008

Feb. 18 could be an especially frustrating day for people watching TV in some nursing homes, RV parks and mobile home villages. ...more

July 26, 2008

A member of our board of directors, who is also an officer, is more than a year past due in maintenance payments and assessments. Should this person be allowed to remain on the board? I thought not, and asked for the person to resign, but the request was refused. The other board members are not aware of the serious delinquency because the officer has not told them. ...more

July 24, 2008

An Avon Park maintenance man formerly employed as a subcontractor with Maronda Homes was free Friday on $43,000 bail, after he was arrested on charges of defrauding another subcontractor out of $43,827.26 by diverting his checks, according to a sheriff's arrest report. ...more

July 14, 2008