The more-than-three-year wait is over. With a tweet of a whistle from Mayor Pam Iorio, the remodeled pool at Cyrus Greene Park reopened this week at 2101 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. ...more

June 14, 2008

TAMPA - She was the city's first black female officer and a mother figure to countless kids in East Tampa. Patricia "Pat" Pierce Coleman died Wednesday. She was 75. ...more

June 13, 2008

The pool is ready except for the ribbon-cutting Tuesday. The city's $1.5 million remodeling project elevated the pool at Cyrus Greene Park, added a handicap accessibility ramp, a slide, rain arches and a splash pad. There will be six swim lanes and there are plans for swim league competitions. ...more

June 4, 2008

Essie Mae Reed, 78, is a Tampa treasure. That's how U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, described her recently when Castor stood on the floor of the House of Representatives to honor the community activist as a champion of the poor. ...more

May 24, 2008

It's one of the great Catch-22s of modern American life - if you want to get ahead, you need education, but how can the people who need it most afford the high cost of college? ...more

February 19, 2008

To reflect and reminisce as the 50th Daytona 500 approached, Eddie Wood of the famed Wood Brothers Racing drove down to the old Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighthouse south of Daytona Beach on Tuesday. ...more

February 17, 2008

Pasco-Hernando Community College will be among 50 sites participating in the statewide College Goal Sunday event 2 - 4 p.m. on Feb. 24. College Goal Sunday was created by the Indiana Student Financial Aid Association. It received funding from the Lilly Endowment and supplemental support from the Lumina Foundation for Education, both based in Indianapolis. ...more

February 16, 2008

When Matt Nuzzo noticed sandhill cranes were being run over in front of Seven Springs Middle School, and on the busy streets nearby, the seventh-grader wanted to do something. ...more

January 27, 2008

Seven Springs Middle School eighth-grader Matt Nuzzo wanted to do something about the sandhill cranes he saw being killed by traffic along Trinity Boulevard. A nice idea, but what's a young man going to do about it? Write his state lawmaker? Get with it, this is the 21st century. ...more

January 19, 2008

A trailer park fight that sent two to jail is the likely winner of 2008's first arrest. ...more

January 4, 2008