HUDSON – Four people were injured and one person was killed about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday in a rear-end collision on U.S. 19 at Little Road, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

December 25, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Should the town take the money and run or is land better? At last week's meeting, town attorney Bert Harris III asked the town council to consider whether impact fees negotiated with builders should be extracted in cash or land. ...more

December 19, 2007

A 24-year-old man used a sawed-off shotgun to rob a store Saturday night and later led Hillsborough County deputies on a car chase that ended with a crash, according to an arrest report. ...more

December 17, 2007

Four teenagers were taken to a hospital after a car crash in Brooksville on Thursday night. ...more

December 7, 2007

One of the great subtleties of hockey occurs when a wind-up slap shot rockets past a goaltender and hits nothing but twine and pops the water bottle up into the air. Nearly as sure as the red light flashing behind the net, the bottle jumping off the top of the net - what is often referred to as a "popper" - signifies the puck hit nothing but twine. ...more

December 3, 2007

Referring to the dozens of traffic lights in Sebring-Avon Park U.S. 27 area and north on U.S. 27, the use of sensors to prevent the running of red lights will create other problems: mainly motorists like myself will either continually slam on brakes on yellow to avoid a possible ticket or alternately drive at 20 mph in order to stop within the three seconds allowed on yellow before the red light. Almost all U.S. 27 lights change to yellow when I approach within 140 yards of them and three seconds is not enough time to make it through the red. As a retiree on a fixed pension, I cannot just work overtime to pay any traffic fine. A traffic ticket to seniors means no food for weeks to pay any fines or the loss of the car, and so no means to get food in. My solution is to drive very slow, in order to stop within three seconds, but unfortunately I must drive in the fast outside lanes to avoid transport trucks (most of them cannot stop and do not stop for these red lights) from crashing into my car at the rear, and most trucks travel the inside lanes. ...more

December 2, 2007

A Clearwater man has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection with an Oct. 5 crash that killed a Dunedin woman. ...more

November 25, 2007