PLANT CITY - a viewing for Jordan Hays, the 9-year-old boy who died in the Plant City Christmas Parade last week, is set for 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at Chas E. Davis Funeral Home, 3075 S. Florida Ave., Inverness. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Floral City United Methodist Church, 8480 E. Marvin St., in Floral City. ...more

December 13, 2007

Hernando Today obituaries. ...more

November 15, 2007

A motorcyclist died this morning near Inverness when his 2007 Yamaha struck the trailer of a van that was stopped and obstructing the southbound lanes of U.S. 41, according the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

October 28, 2007

Despite a telephonic glitch, the city council Thursday chose a lawyer and three-term president of a domestic violence support group to fill out the term of former chairman John Bryan, who resigned and later committed suicide Sept. 7. ...more

October 19, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - More than two months after chairman John Bryan committed suicide, the city council is scheduled this afternoon to select a successor. Five people have applied to fill the remainder of Bryan's term, which is up in January 2010. Bryan's District 2 covers the northern reaches of St. Petersburg. Council members, who must live in the districts they represent, are paid $39,330 annually. ...more

October 18, 2007

Standing at the check-in line of the Atlanta airport last summer, a teenage girl - the adopted daughter of John Bryan - shared a terrible secret with a woman who also had been adopted by the second-term St. Petersburg council member. ...more

September 28, 2007

City Council Chairman John Bryan was found dead by a newspaper reporter Friday afternoon, the same day he resigned amid a criminal investigation into whether he sexually abused two of his adopted daughters and a nanny. ...more

September 8, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - City Council Chairman John Bryan – who resigned today amid a criminal investigation into whether he sexually abused two of his adopted daughters and a third female – was found dead by a newspaper reporter Sept. 7. ...more

September 8, 2007