More than 500 guests are expected at the South Florida Baptist Hospital Foundation's Sept. 24 Diamonds & Denim Gala, its biggest fundraiser of the year. The $50 per person event will be held in from 7 to 10 p.m. in the expo building on the Florida Strawberry Festival grounds in Plant City. ...more

September 8, 2009

Florida residents who registered in the online lottery for tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service were losers from the start. ...more

July 8, 2009

Prosecutors have dropped a case against a woman accused of stealing three large drawings from Mark Lunsford, the father of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford who was kidnapped and killed in 200 ...more

June 7, 2009

Eisenhower Middle School has expanded its recycling efforts in recent years, gradually encouraging students to embrace the idea of going green. ...more

March 18, 2009

Talk about locks of love. Evolutions Hair Design in Spring Hill will host a "Hair-a-thon" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday to raise money for Joe Cascio, an assistant fire chief at the Hernando Beach Volunteer Fire Department who was injured in a car accident last month. ...more

March 14, 2009

Pasco County has no shortage of artistic children and teenagers. A trip to the Pasco County Fair confirms it. ...more

February 21, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - When Omar Almonte was a teenager growing up in New York, he discovered the art of tagging. ...more

February 20, 2009

When Omar Almonte was a teenager growing up in New York, he discovered the art of tagging. ...more

February 18, 2009

When Omar Almonte was a teenager growing up in New York, he discovered the art of tagging. Even though he wasn't out spraying graffiti and running away like his friends, he practiced on paper and eventually on a wall in his parents' shed. ...more

February 11, 2009

On Jan. 31, 57 students from St. John's Episcopal Parish Day School along with their teacher, D.J. Holt, participated in the Regional Latin Forum at Robinson High School. They dominated the Junior Division and won awards in academic tests such as customs, history of the republic, history of the empire, derivatives, mythology and vocabulary. They also were successful in the creative contests, including mosaics, drawings, games, maps, paintings, sculpture, models and textile arts. Overall, they took first place in the academic, creative and "Olympika" categories, and first place for the Junior Division Sweepstakes. Twenty-five students will represent the school at the State Latin Forum, held in Orlando on April 16-18. ...more

February 11, 2009