Tarpon Springs faces an interesting quandary of caring, when it comes to helping the homeless. Over the years, several kindhearted and caring angels have gotten together to provide many basic services for the homeless. In Tarpon, a homeless person can find free hot meals every day of the week, clothing, a food pantry, day shelter to shower and receive mail and health care. When the weather turns cold there is a cold night shelter. The phrase "build it and they will come" has never been truer. ...more

October 24, 2009

Panhandlers have been growing increasingly aggressive and menacing downtown and in other commercial areas of the city. ...more

October 24, 2009

The city is about to tighten code enforcement regulations to prohibit algae-covered swimming pools like one that rallied frustrated Gilchrist Heights residents to action last year. ...more

March 4, 2009

The city is about to tighten code enforcement regulations to prohibit algae-covered swimming pools like one that rallied frustrated Gilchrist Heights residents to action last year. ...more

February 27, 2009

The city's nuisance abatement board was resurrected last year as a way to do away with neighborhood eyesores where drugs and prostitution are rampant. ...more

February 20, 2009

A giant snowman named Snowzilla has mysteriously appeared again this year — despite the city's cease-and-desist order. ...more

December 24, 2008

A grand jury has formally indicted a man accused of killing his 81-year-old mother by beating her head with a remote control and holding her underwater in the family pool. ...more

August 29, 2008

Code enforcement notices have been mailed to the owner of the former USA Grocers convenience store/gasoline station at Maryland Avenue and U.S. 92, officials said. ...more

July 17, 2008

Rhode Island's Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a first-in-the-nation jury verdict that found three former lead paint companies responsible for creating a public nuisance, rejecting a closely watched case that had been seen as a bellwether for potential lawsuits across the country. ...more

July 2, 2008

A hearing master has ordered a cleanup at a residential property that code enforcement officials say gets more complaints than any other in the neighborhood. ...more

February 11, 2008