For the past six weeks, Seminole resident John Piazza said he has had to buy plenty of John McCain signs to replace the ones that have gone missing from his front yard. ...more

November 3, 2008

A train collided with a sport utility vehicle just after 4:30 p.m. today, killing one person. ...more

October 22, 2008

Too much, too soon. Agreeing with that assessment by its staff and the planning and zoning board, county commissioners on Wednesday denied a rezoning request that would have allowed for an 87-unit apartment complex on Cortez Boulevard east of Brooksville and just west of La Pine Road. ...more

September 11, 2008

Hillsborough County and Plant City firefighters extinguished a two-alarm blaze in an auto-repair business in Plant City. ...more

August 20, 2008

DADE CITY - Emergency crews are working to contain oil spilling from an overturned tanker truck in a rural area outside Dade City. ...more

July 9, 2008

In the late 1980s Pasco County was contemplating what to do with its swelling stream of solid waste. It could create a new landfill, what people once called a garbage dump. There was only one small problem. Actually it was a huge problem. No one wanted the landfill created anywhere near them. That definitely was a problem, because there was hardly any place a landfill might have been created that wasn't near someone. ...more

July 2, 2008

I just did the arithmetic based on your front page story about THE Bus. Rounding the average ridership down to 600, given that the county annual payment is $600,000, the county pays an average of less than $1,000 per rider per year. Since THE Bus only runs for five days a week, that's $3.85 per rider per day and 32 cents per rider per operating hour. ...more

June 25, 2008

ODESSA - Two dogs and two cats perished tonight in a fire that consumed a house in a rural area near Pine Valley Drive, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA - A $15 million soccer complex would help fund operations and maintenance of Hillsborough County's sprawling parks and recreation system. ...more

June 17, 2008

The southern tip of Hernando County seems drab and desolate compared to the more bustling areas of Brooksville and Spring Hill. ...more

June 10, 2008