Saturday's Pet Adoption Expo at the Florida State Fairgrounds found new homes for 406 animals, officials said. Visitors snapped up the 16 dogs and 10 cats from Hillsborough County Animal Services. Other animals were brought to the expo by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and various other rescue groups, including Little Miracles Rabbit Rescue and Sir Snuffy's Hedgehog Sanctuary, both of which had animals who found new homes, said animal services spokeswoman Marti Ryan. ...more

April 26, 2009

You would like to think that things are not as bad as they seem. Unless you are holed up somewhere in the swamps off the Tamiami Trail and your old rabbit-ears TV has stopped working, that's not so easy to do. ...more

February 22, 2009

At 11:59 tonight, about half the TV stations in the Tampa Bay area will unplug their traditional analog broadcasts and send only new and improved digital TV signals. ...more

February 17, 2009

An author who battled cancer as a child and used the experience as inspiration for a children's book will be in Brooksville today. ...more

November 21, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - More than 100 cross country runners from 16 high schools participated in the Ron Robison Invitational on Oct. 3. ...more

October 19, 2008

Reference is made to the Sept. 12 article in which the sheriff's attorney, Mike Durham, described the leader of a controversial evidence audit as "a disgruntled former employee." If Mr. Newell was a disgruntled part-time employee of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office, it is apparently the first time in his reported 34 year career as a law enforcement officer that he had been, as described, "disgruntled." ...more

September 21, 2008

Prudence, a domesticated 4-month-old rabbit, was an Easter gift, but the owner could no longer care for her. ...more

July 26, 2008

A teenager is accused of stabbing her ex-boyfriend's rabbit with a pair of scissors and tossing the animal on the floor, Manatee County sheriff's deputies said today. ...more

January 10, 2008

Have cavy, could win. The 61st annual Pasco County Fair in February will again open its rabbit show to the short-tailed rodents from South America, of which the guinea pig is the most recognized. ...more

December 29, 2007

Well, you missed it. The Heartland Idol contest is over for this year, and the ones of you who didn't make it down to the Circle to watch have no idea what great entertainment you missed. I am sure there are some who would like to hang the judges up by their toe nails for the way the judging went. But I have to admit I was rooting for Christopher Allen the whole time. Christopher had the whole package: voice, poise, and super stage presence. I also have to give it to Shawn Knowles for his stage presence. To me that is what entertainment is all about, not just being able to sing. No matter how great a voice a person has if the person bores me they have lost me. ...more

November 16, 2007