This unincorporated area of North Pinellas continued to draw on its roots in 2009, definitely not as a city, but as a feisty, independent village. ...more

December 26, 2009

A group of Pinellas teens today spent part of their holiday break painting over graffiti as part of a new program implemented by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Launched last month, the Graffiti Response Team gives teens who are in trouble for minor criminal offenses an option. "We want to give the children who have committed minor nonviolent crimes an opportunity not to go through the criminal justice system and come out here and work off community service hours," said sheriff's Cpl. David DiSalvo. ...more

December 23, 2009

City staff's plan to bring bids for the Tarpon and Pinellas Avenue Lighting District project to the City Commission this week has been delayed until the middle of next month. ...more

December 19, 2009

At the corner of East 26th Avenue and North Garrison Street in the Grant Park neighborhood, Carla Wilson doesn't like what she sees. Across the street, the vacant house in foreclosure is going downhill fast. ...more

December 18, 2009

At the corner of East 26th Avenue and North Garrison Street in the Grant Park neighborhood, Carla Wilson doesn't like what she sees. Across the street, the vacant house in foreclosure is going downhill fast. ...more

December 17, 2009

The house is enveloped by a jungle of tall grass and weeds. Garbage is piled up next to several overflowing trash cans, attracting hordes of rats and insects. ...more

December 17, 2009

A local pastor approached the Sebring City Council Tuesday to address what he termed "unfettered crime and violence" in the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Lemon Street area of Washington Heights. ...more

December 17, 2009

The house is enveloped by a jungle of tall grass and weeds. Garbage is piled up next to several overflowing trash cans, attracting hordes of rats and insects. ...more

December 16, 2009

A thick bed of foul-smelling muck blankets the bottom of a dozen canals along Old Tampa Bay, caused by decades of stormwater runoff and overdevelopment. ...more

December 14, 2009

Tampa and residents have wrangled for years over whose responsibility it is to clean up the canals, many of them carved into the coastline by developers in the early-1960s after the West Shore area was annexed into the city from Hillsborough County. ...more

December 13, 2009