TAMPA - Trappers continue to pick off escaped monkeys in Polk County. One by one, the primates are falling pray to routine and carelessly walking into traps. ...more

July 17, 2008

"Vote NO Landfill." That was the message on more than a dozen T-shirts at Tuesday night's Dade City City Commission meeting. Members of Protectors of Florida's Legacy came to ask commissioners for a formal resolution opposing a 90-acre landfill off Enterprise Road, a mile and a half southeast of the city limits. ...more

July 10, 2008

Dozens of people protest proposed landfill outside Dade City ...more

July 9, 2008

Opponents of a proposed landfill outside Dade City will ask the city commission tonight to formally oppose the project. ...more

July 8, 2008

Meet you at the mural. That's what city officials hope people say when they plan to spend an afternoon at the Riverwalk. ...more

June 24, 2008

TAMPA - A tardy and fitful start to the summer rainy season means the Hillsborough River is lower than it should be in the middle of June and is costing Tampa water customers about $44,000 a day. ...more

June 17, 2008

Trappers have quietly nabbed a third of the patas monkeys that escaped in April from the Safari Wild nature preserve in Polk County, and authorities say they are confident the capture of the rest is imminent. ...more

June 17, 2008

Trappers have quietly nabbed a third of the patas monkeys that escaped in April from the Safari Wild nature preserve in Polk County, and authorities say they are confident the capture of the rest is imminent. ...more

June 16, 2008

As residents of Moore Road in Lakeland, and neighbors to the Safari Wild facility, we felt compelled to respond to Lex Salisbury's article, "Safari Wild Will Benefit Community, Environment" (Other Views, June 4.) ...more

June 12, 2008

The trouble caused by the patas monkeys that escaped Lex Salisbury's rural Polk County exotic animal park in April has extended beyond the mostly unsuccessful effort to recapture the wily primates. ...more

May 31, 2008