It's lunchtime at the Whistle Stop Cafe in historic downtown Plant City, where the waiters know your name and probably your order. If you prefer your iced tea unsweetened, you'd better speak up. ...more

February 22, 2009

It's in eastern Hillsborough County, but Plant City is the most Southern town around. ...more

February 22, 2009

"Jesus, Jesus," whispers Lottie Mae Durant. That's Barack Obama taking the presidential oath on a TV at the old William Glover School, where Durant and other blacks once learned from first-rate teachers and secondhand books. ...more

February 21, 2009

As the reservoir level continues to drop, Tampa Bay Water, the agency responsible for making sure Tampa Bay has clean, safe water plans to transfer $15 million from its Rate Stablization Reserve, a rainy day account, to cover costs and pay for water. ...more

February 16, 2009

A 22-year-old man is hospitalized with a gunshot wound after an overnight home invasion in eastern Hillsborough County. ...more

February 9, 2009

Debbie Cox-Roush, new chairman of the Hillsborough County Republican Party, ran for the post because she wasn't happy the county voted for Barack Obama, and vows local Republicans won't let that happen again. ...more

February 8, 2009

Some of the most crowded high schools in northern and eastern Hillsborough County would see relief under new attendance zones the school district proposed Thursday. ...more

January 23, 2009

Some of most crowded high schools in northern and eastern Hillsborough County would see relief under new attendance zones the school district proposed today. ...more

January 22, 2009

Growers across the state are accessing damage to crops from a freeze that penetrated as far south as the Everglades. Temperatures hovered in the high 20s in eastern Hillsborough County while staying in the 30s in Tampa early this morning. Even normally toasty Pinellas County saw temperatures at the upper edge of the 30s. ...more

January 22, 2009

Dozens of amateur astronomers will head to the Withlacoochee River County Park near Dade City for their annual Orange Blossom Special International Star Party. There, they say, they can find true darkness in the absence of human population. ...more

December 4, 2008