What do a real estate agent, a printing company owner and a sheriff's community service officer have in common? At least two things: a passion to support local charities and a hat in the ring for Brandon's annual honorary mayor's race. ...more

June 24, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Progress Energy plans to build a substation along U.S. 41 north of State Road 54. ...more

December 31, 2008

Progress Energy will build a substation on U.S. 41 ...more

December 30, 2008

Progress Energy may need more right of way for transmission lines through Hernando County, but that need will be "limited," the company said Friday. ...more

December 27, 2008

A raccoon that snuck into a Tampa Electric Co. substation in Ybor City this morning caused a power outage to about 3,500 people, an official said. ...more

September 23, 2008

Two men were arrested this week, accused of stealing more than $11,600 worth of copper wire from a Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative New River substation in August. Timothy Andrew Davis, of 30404 Lynne Drive, already in jail on unrelated drug and grand theft auto charges, is now facing a new charge of grand theft. Pasco deputies say Davis, Jason Gregory Lanier, 27, and a third man who hasn't been arrested yet, stole the 1,037 feet of copper from a secured area that houses generators and transformers sometime between Aug. 14 and Aug. 18. ...more

September 17, 2008

It was an irresistible 400-pound temptation. "We had the idea of taking the bull at Bloomingdale for a long time. Everyone talked about doing it for years," said Frank "Tuna" Carotenuto, 16. ...more

August 2, 2008

How do you steal a 400-pound bronze statue of a bull? Assemble five teens with a tarp and a pickup truck. That's how the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office today described last week's theft of the statue — the mascot at Bloomingdale High School. ...more

August 1, 2008

A Wednesday night thunderstorm had an even greater impact than just drenching a good part of south Hillsborough. About 1,100 Tampa Electric Co. customers lost power for a portion of the evening after a circuit went out in the Gibsonton substation, said Rick Morera, TECO's senior spokesman. ...more

July 10, 2008

Niki Levesque hears it often: "It's just like Mayberry!" ...more

July 2, 2008