The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash this morning that sent a motorcyclist flying into a light pole on U.S. 19 near Lakewood Plaza, a witness said. The crash occurred as the motorcycle was traveling south and had just passed Berkeley Manor/Breakwater boulevard. A car traveling north turned left, and the two vehicles collided, said Jeff Miner, a former emergency medical technician who said he witnessed the incident. ...more

August 11, 2008

Whaley's Market isn't the glitziest grocery store in town. The carpet is worn and splotched. The paint along the side walls is a dull shade of coral. Some wire racks in the refrigerators are old and rusted. A new 39,000-square-foot Publix GreenWise Market going up around the corner promises to outshine and outmerchandize the South Tampa market ...more

August 6, 2008

Florence, S.C. resident Nachenga Robinson was taking her three children and a friend of her father's to a Pinellas Park Wal-Mart when she was killed when her car was struck by a person police said was fleeing from an undercover drug sting. ...more

July 19, 2008

For several weeks, visitors to the local Cork & Olive store at Northwoods Shopping Center have found a sign on the door announcing "closed for repairs." ...more

July 9, 2008

Since March 2007 movie fans in Plant City have lived with the hope that a theater would replace the Lake Walden Cinema 8 at 220 W. Alexander St. ...more

July 5, 2008

Starbucks is scaling back. It is not known whether any of the stores in Hernando County will be among the casualties. ...more

July 4, 2008

Starbucks is scaling back. It is not known whether any of the stores in Hernando County will be among the casualties. ...more

July 3, 2008

For several weeks, visitors to the local Cork & Olive store at Northwoods Shopping Center have found a sign on the door announcing "closed for repairs." ...more

July 3, 2008

Forty-six years ago, Shahena Esat's journey to South Shore began in the African country of Malawi. The path led her next to Zimbabwe, then to England and finally to the rural community where she would start and operate a business of her own. ...more

July 2, 2008

State transportation officials opened bids for the long-anticipated widening of U.S. 301 last week and found them all under budget, with the lowest coming in at just less than $61 million. ...more

June 25, 2008