PORT RICHEY - One motorcyclist is injured and another dead after separate crashes moments apart early this morning. ...more

June 16, 2008

Lost Without The GPS This past weekend, the PW and I spent an awful amount of time learning how to get around on the streets of an unfamiliar location without our navigation device. We were in the Ellenton area where the tanker truck destroyed the bridge over State Road 301 on the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 last week. Our motel was located in the Prime Outlets Mall area, within a half mile of the accident. Thank goodness we had a few friends who were familiar with the area and gave us maps to use to get around most of the congestion. Even so, it was impossible not to get into some standstill traffic jams. But before we left Sunday morning, the authorities had devised routes and some rerouting of traffic, which made traffic flow almost normally. ...more

June 12, 2008

A Clearwater man died Sunday afternoon when his motorcycle ran off the road and tossed him into a ditch. ...more

June 5, 2008

Items of interest from the May 27 Plant City Commission meeting include: ...more

June 4, 2008

CONSIDER THE PALATE UNLEASHED It's safe to say that this year's Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival, held last weekend at the Don CeSar Beach Resort in St. Pete Beach, went much smoother than last year's inaugural event, which suffered from canceled seminars and complicated parking arrangements. As a spinoff of the massively successful South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami Beach, it also suffered last year from expectations that the Tampa Bay version would approximate the same style and flair. ...more

May 20, 2008

Not once but twice, jockey Kent Desormeaux sneaked a peek to see if anyone was gaining on Big Brown. ...more

May 18, 2008

When John Peppe took his family out boating to troll for kingfish, he never thought he would get a close up view of a 30 foot whale. The giant aquatic mammal, believed to be a humpback whale, was spotted heading south about a half mile offshore of Sand Key Beach in Clearwater. While it is not uncommon to see the whales in the Gulf of Mexico, it is rare to see them within a few miles of the shoreline. ...more

May 3, 2008

LAKE PLACID — As firefighters battled flames Monday and Tuesday, they kept talking about defensible space. That's a minimum 30-foot no-vegetation zone around houses, barns, outbuildings and other possessions. Two hundred feet is more desirable. ...more

February 14, 2008

The city and the Hernando County Fair Association have struck a deal for a piece of property the city needs to build Governor Boulevard. ...more

February 13, 2008

The sheriff's office could have answers this week about how it handled a 911 call from a witness it thinks pinpointed the location of Michael King and Denise Lee shortly before Lee's slaying Jan. 17. ...more

February 7, 2008