Another frightening new government report is heightening fears about the safety of the U.S. biodefense laboratories that study some of the world's deadliest germs. The latest worry: Intruders could easily break into two of the labs because of lax security. ...more

October 17, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August, according to a Pasco sheriff's office report. ...more

October 15, 2008

Nelson Capestany had just bought a Slurpee at 7-Eleven and was waiting for the light to change at Moog Road and U.S. 19 when a man pointed a black and silver pistol at him and jumped into his car on the last day of August. Now, that man – Javon Corzell Jones - is sitting in the Land O' Lakes Jail awaiting trial on charges of armed carjacking, armed robbery and false imprisonment. He was arrested in connection to the summer carjacking Monday at the jail where he's been since Sept. 11 on other charges. Sitting in the front passenger seat, Jones, 27, ordered Capestany to drive to a mobile home park off of Alternate U.S. 19 just after 4:30 a.m., according to a sheriff's office report, and made him go inside the home. ...more

October 14, 2008

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office released the results Monday of its inventory of over 20,000 evidentiary items. ...more

October 14, 2008

A deadly clash this month on a jungle highway has become the newest and bloodiest symbol of Bolivia's political crisis pitting President Evo Morales against an autonomy movement in the eastern lowlands that is bitterly resisting his leftist reforms. ...more

September 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - With the Pasco volleyball team, you literally never know what you're going to get if you're an opponent. ...more

September 25, 2008

Linda Rains of Trinity can't believe John McCain wants Gov. Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. ...more

September 24, 2008

PLANT CITY Karen Berry, publisher of a Plant City-based magazine, has been named the Florida Farm Bureau's Ag Journalist of the Year. ...more

September 19, 2008

Tribune sports columnist Martin Fennelly talks with Tribune college football expert Joey Johnson about the upcoming weekend, including USF's batlle with FIU and Florida traveling to Knoxville to take on Tennessee. ...more

September 19, 2008

Several months ago, Chris Wessel, editor of Hernando Today, made the statement that if Ted Rall lied in his columns, he would not continue to print his statements. ...more

September 19, 2008