Jennifer Johnson had about a minute to talk before her cell phone lost its connection with a 911 operator in Plant City. ...more

April 2, 2009

Jennifer Johnson had about a minute to talk before a 911 operator in Plant City lost a connection with her. "Ma'am, I'm in a trunk right now," the 31-year-old Tampa mother yelled on a copy of the call released today. "They got me in the trunk. … I don't know where I'm at." No officers were dispatched to find her, according to a report contained in the 700 pages of discovery material released with the call today. ...more

April 1, 2009

Members of the Virginia Park Residential Neighborhood Association are taking a stand against a cell phone tower proposed for 3328 S. Dale Mabry Highway, on land owned by Brewer and Sons Funeral Home and Cremation Services. ...more

April 1, 2009

The possibility of a cell phone tower rising in their neighborhood has Virginia Park residents taking a stand. ...more

March 19, 2009

The possibility of a cell phone tower rising in their neighborhood has Virginia Park residents taking a stand. ...more

March 18, 2009

Parents opposed to a cell phone tower at Cimino Elementary School are urging likeminded parents to attend a March 16 Hillsborough County zoning hearing in a last-ditch effort to stop the tower from being erected. ...more

March 4, 2009

Hoping to garner more community support for their cause, parents opposed to placing a cell phone tower at Cimino Elementary School and other public schools will host a meeting at 6:30 tonight at the Bloomingdale Regional Library. Meeting organizer Louise Bravo, the parent of a Cimino Elementary student, said a groundswell of protest is the only way to stop Collier Enterprises II from placing the 100-foot cell tower at the school, at 4329 Culbreath Road, following Principal Deborah Talley's Feb. 10 decision to recommend putting up the cell tower. Cimino PTA President Pearl Chiarenza said all the studies she has seen have been inconclusive, and she is in favor of constructing the tower. ...more

February 24, 2009

It's a spring thing. American bald eagle watchers who volunteer for the Clearwater Audubon Society say there are signs of new life popping up in nests all over Pinellas County. ...more

February 21, 2009

It's a spring thing. American bald eagle watchers who volunteer for the Clearwater Audubon Society say there are signs of new life popping up in nests all over Pinellas County. Among the 27 active eagle nests they keep track of in Pinellas, watchers say they have spotted 22 eaglets during this year's breeding season, which began last fall. ...more

February 20, 2009

On a recent sunny afternoon, a dozen youngsters played in a circle with a rainbow-colored parachute in the playground outside Witter Elementary school in Tampa. A few yards away stood a new 200-foot cell phone tower. ...more

February 17, 2009