An 11-year-old Florida boy is getting ready to finish his hike to Washington to draw attention to homelessness among children. ...more

May 11, 2009

Zach Bonner, 11, is getting ready to finish his hike from Tampa to Washington to draw attention to homelessness among children. ...more

May 5, 2009

Led by quarterback Quet Shaw and receivers Tekeyah Clark and Kate Wicker, Plant City's flag football team rolled past Plant 31-13 in a first-round play-in game Saturday afternoon at Plant High. ...more

May 3, 2009

Excuse me, but did I miss the issue where it was discovered that the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly changed into fresh water? ...more

April 22, 2009

Students and parents enrolled at the Florida Virtual School plan to gather Tuesday morning at the Capitol in Tallahassee and protest the budget cuts the Legislature has planned. ...more

April 20, 2009

The Tea Parties in downtown Tampa on Wednesday drew hundreds of people protesting the federal stimulus package. Marlene Etzler of Tampa showed up at the noon protest wearing an Uncle Sam hat and toted signs and a "Don't Tread On Me" flag. "I wanted to come here to speak out to have my voice heard," she said. ...more

April 16, 2009

Assessment teams are heading out in boats to check on flood damage in two north Florida counties. ...more

April 10, 2009

The father of a young woman murdered in Tallahassee while acting as an undercover informant has pleaded for stricter guidelines for police. ...more

April 6, 2009

A get-together turned violent early Sunday morning when a man hit another man in the face several times with a golf club, then stabbed him multiple times in the upper body, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report said. ...more

March 31, 2009

Aget-together turned violent early Sunday morning when a man smashed another man in the face several times with a golf club, then stabbed him multiple times in the upper body, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report said. According to the report, Derick D. Schexnayder's mother, not named in the report, invited Curtis Andrew Osborne, 49, to Schexnayder's home at 8528 Bolton Ave., Hudson, early Sunday, but Schexnayder later told Osborne to leave around 1 a.m. ...more

March 30, 2009