The fire at McDonald Elementary last month did more than displace teachers and students from sooty classrooms. ...more

December 9, 2009

Students and teachers at McDonald Elementary School received some much needed help Friday afternoon when a white van pulled up in front of the school. ...more

December 5, 2009

The fire at McDonald Elementary last month did more than displace teachers and students from sooty classrooms. It extinguished years of lesson plans teachers at the Seffner school had compiled and stored in their rooms. It destroyed textbooks. Left computers beyond repair. Wiped out bulletin boards, name tags, posters and anything else on paper. ...more

December 2, 2009

A 46-year-old Land O' Lakes man has been accused of setting his own house on fire. Pasco County sheriff's deputies say David Wayne Cox, of 4151 Gerry Lane, used a cigarette lighter Saturday to intentionally spark fires on the first and second floors of his home. ...more

November 30, 2009

Director John Hillcoat's film doesn't do justice to Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book. ...more

November 25, 2009

Students at McDonald Elementary School will attend classes today at the regular time despite a fire that damaged part of the school Saturday morning. ...more

November 16, 2009

EPA administrator Lisa Jackson says the agency is moving toward regulating the gases blamed for global warming. ...more

February 17, 2009

ST. PETERSBURG Don Zimmer acknowledged Friday that a stroke he suffered last month has slowed him down a bit, but he doesn't plan to let it keep him off the baseball field. ...more

January 17, 2009

A person severely injured in a mobile home fire this morning has been identified as a woman in her 60s, and if she lives, she can thank an ambulance crew that arrived before firefighters, Largo fire officials say. ...more

November 26, 2008

An accidental fire at 125 N. Florida Ave. displaced an Avon Park woman and her 12-year-old son Tuesday morning. Their two-bedroom trailer in the Southland Court trailer park was a total loss. ...more

September 2, 2008