Capt. Darrell Wilson, longtime member of the Plant City Police Department, was honored at Plant City Optimist Club's annual Respect for Law Banquet. ...more

May 12, 2008

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May 10, 2008

Raymond A. Pickell, 68, of Brooksville, died Thursday, May 8, at his home. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to this area nine years ago from Albion, Ind. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - Members of Veterans for Peace and other anti-war groups will hold a Vigil for Peace from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Gandy Boulevard and Dale Mabry Highway. Army veteran Jay Alexander of St. Petersburg said the demonstration isn't intended to discourage people from attending AirFest this weekend at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

May 2, 2008

Young, working-class and black, Henry Bolden Jr. was not the kind of person who bought a new house in 1946, even in the North. ...more

February 16, 2008

Jim Flautt lives in Fort Lauderdale and, until recently, the only way he knew to check on his father's grave in St. Petersburg was to drive the 240 miles. ...more

February 11, 2008

A one-time Republican candidate for a state House seat pleaded guilty Friday to charges he siphoned about $110,000 from the account of a dead man, prosecutors say. ...more

January 14, 2008

CLEARWATER - A one-time Republican candidate for a state House seat pleaded guilty Friday to charges he siphoned about $110,000 from the account of a dead man, prosecutors say. ...more

January 14, 2008

Veterans Day probably means more to Steve Lecarpentier than it does to most people. ...more

November 11, 2007

SEBRING — With songs, a poem and words of appreciation, Fred Wild Elementary School students honored and thanked our U.S. military veterans. Theresa Whidden's first-grade class recited a poem Friday that was composed by Whidden, which said in part: "On Veterans Day, we would like to say. With pride-filled hearts, thank you to the veterans who have done their part to keep us safe, to keep us free. Without their courage life as we know it might not be." World War II U.S. Army veteran, retired Cmdr. Sgt. Maj. Harold Linville told the students after Germany's defeat, he was going to be moved from the European theater to the war effort against Japan. But before his deployment, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two cities in Japan ending the war. ...more

November 10, 2007