For Riverview distance runner Michael Babinec, it seems the best is yet to come. ...more

November 11, 2009

For Riverview distance runner Michael Babinec, it seems the best is yet to come. ...more

November 11, 2009

The Southwest Florida Water Management District will be conducting "controlled, prescribed burns" during November and December on the Jack Creek property in Highlands County. ...more

November 10, 2009

Some Davis Islands roads will be torn up and motorists re-routed as construction crews replace water mains. ...more

October 26, 2009

Listening on television about impending comet crashes on Earth brings to mind a report on a scientific article some years ago! ...more

August 19, 2009

A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy knew something was amiss about a backhoe chugging along in Gibsonton about 3 this morning, an affidavit states. The deputy pulled over the backhoe on Nundy Avenue just west of U.S. 41 South after noting the driver wasn't using slow-moving-vehicle indicators. Further investigation and a chat with the driver, Charles James Smith, 24, revealed the backhoe was stolen, an affidavit states. ...more

April 28, 2009

The idea stemmed from listening to his parents talking about growing up, their meeting, getting married, moving and eventually raising a family. ...more

March 27, 2009

Firefighters in three counties are battling at least six brush fires that sparked today in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

February 26, 2009

For Joseph Schweiger, the weight-loss process was not a diet, but a lifestyle change. ...more

February 25, 2009

Drive south on U.S. 27. Just three miles east of S.R. 70, the country begins to change. The Lake Wales Ridge drops dozens of feet in elevation, and the hilly land becomes flat. ...more

February 22, 2009