There aren't many spare hours in the day for Michelle Dix. She's the mother of three girls - ages 21, 19 and 17 - and a first-time grandmother. She juggles two jobs, working as a client analyst for an insurance company and in retail sales at Macy's in Brandon. She also sings in the praise choir at her church, God's Side Progressive Missionary Baptist. ...more

January 2, 2010

A soldier from Plant City who survived a 15-month tour in Iraq was lost overboard and presumed dead while on a tugboat doing a training mission off North Carolina. ...more

February 25, 2009

A soldier from Plant City stationed out of Fort Eustis, Va., is missing and presumed dead after he reportedly fell overboard Sunday during an Army exercise off the North Carolina coast. A 40-hour search by the Coast Guard was suspended. ...more

February 24, 2009

Seconds after Samuel McGinnis asked a clown-masked robber not to hurt anyone in a CVS drugstore, the gunman shot him a second time - point blank in the chest. ...more

December 8, 2008

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July 8, 2008

The package arrived unceremoniously on a Monday in mid-December, dropped at the front door by an anonymous delivery person. ...more

January 20, 2008

Elrick Williams' toddler niece Carlyn may be one of the youngest contributors to this year's presidential campaign. The 2-year-old gave $2,300 to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. ...more

October 24, 2007