Railroad Street will be closed between Bowman Avenue and Center Avenue starting at 8 a.m. from Nov. 13-18, due to installation of underground utilities by KDL Underground, Inc., per jack and bore under the CSX railroad tracks at Center Avenue, for the construction of the Sebring Parkway Phase II project. ...more

November 13, 2009

On Saturdays, Nov. 7 and 14, my garden will be open to the public from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. (because my free help eats and leaves at 1 p.m. and also because I tend to collapse soon after). A notice in another publication that said 10 p.m. was a typo. ...more

November 4, 2009

An 18-year-old high school senior who appeared not to hear the horn of an approaching train because he was wearing headphones was killed Monday as he was walking on railroad tracks in Polk County. ...more

October 21, 2009

Railroad Street will be closed at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5 between Bowman Avenue and Center Avenue until further notice, due to the installation of underground utilities by KDL Underground, Inc., per jack and bore under the CSX railroad tracks at Center Avenue for the construction of the Sebring Parkway Phase II project. ...more

August 5, 2009

Pasco County sheriff's detectives have identified a man found mortally wounded and unconscious in his car Tuesday on railroad tracks in Zephyrhills, and they say they are looking for a suspect in the homicide. ...more

July 16, 2009

Pasco sheriff's detectives have identified the man fatally shot and found unconscious in his car Tuesday on railroad tracks in Zephyrhills. ...more

July 15, 2009

A man suffered a head injury late Thursday after being struck by a freight train while lying on railroad tracks, police said. ...more

May 1, 2009

Three South Tampa homes near rail road tracks were affected by fire this afternoon. ...more

March 20, 2009

A train struck a flatbed truck about 11 a.m. Tuesday, and the driver was treated at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa. Kim Jan Nagelhoute, 51, a driver for Helena Chemical Co., was attempting to pull across the railroad tracks and into the Dade City business's driveway when the crash occurred, said Sgt. Steve Gaskins, spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash caused 17 empty coal cars and two locomotives to derail. Willie Lee Brown, an engineer on the CSX train, was taken to Pasco Regional Medical Center in Dade City; his condition was not immediately available. Charges are pending against Nagelhoute. ...more

March 4, 2009

The driver of a flatbed truck was in serious condition at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa after the truck was struck by a train this morning. ...more

March 3, 2009