Hillsborough County commissioners agreed Nov. 4 to award the first phase of the Bruce B. Downs Boulevard widening project to a company that submitted a bid $31 million less than the county's estimated cost. ...more

November 11, 2009

Slow down, look both ways and cross roads at designated crosswalks, says a pedestrian road safety audit of the area surrounding Plant High School. ...more

December 24, 2008

There are new safety measures at Memorial Hospital in Tampa after two women stole credit cards from patients and a visitor in September and went on a shopping spree, police say. ...more

October 2, 2008

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies are visiting each of the county's 25 libraries to see how security can be improved. ...more

September 5, 2008

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies are visiting each of the county's 25 libraries to see how security can be improved. ...more

September 4, 2008

We've pinched and reorganized our household budgets. But we still often overpay for commercially bottled water. On an annual basis, the typical American consumer spends $1,400 on bottled water versus 49 cents for the same amount of water from our kitchen faucet, according to the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit consumer group in Maryland. ...more

August 21, 2008

On the morning of Aug. 18, the busy intersection of Memorial Drive and Valerie Boulevard will become more crowded than ever as about 560 students travel to the new Memorial Elementary School about a half mile away. ...more

July 27, 2008

John McCain welcomed a Supreme Court decision invalidating a District of Columbia handgun ban. Barack Obama sought to straddle the subject by saying he favors an individual's right to bear firearms as well as a government's right to regulate them. ...more

June 27, 2008

The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo reopened Thursday for the first time since a tiger escaped and fatally mauled a teen two months ago. ...more

February 22, 2008

In spite of increased police presence in front of all the major retail stores, there are some who still try to steal while no one is looking. ...more

December 27, 2007