Hillsborough County engineers recently paid a visit to a meeting of the Balm Civic Association to discuss what many feel is the most dangerous intersection in the area. The confluence in question is where County Road 672, Balm-Boyette Road, Shelley Lane and Balm-Wimauma Road meet. Michael McCarthy, traffic division director for the county's Public Works Department, attended the Sept. 22 meeting along with traffic services engineer Remy Ogunsola and Scott Friedman, who presented a road safety audit of the intersection. ...more

September 26, 2008

Overall, there were 10 percent fewer crashes on Hernando County's roads last years. ...more

September 23, 2008

The cramped quarters inside the sheriff's office earned some much-needed relief last year when dispatch moved out. ...more

June 14, 2008

Hillsborough County's traffic division and Lake Forest residents are working together to reduce speeding in the neighborhood. ...more

June 14, 2008

WORK BEGINS NOW ON GARAGES OUTSIDE ...more

June 13, 2008

LAKE FOREST - Hillsborough County's traffic division and Lake Forest residents are working together to reduce speeding in the neighborhood. County staffers met last week with neighborhood residents to discuss solutions to the speeding problem on Lake Forest Drive. Traffic division director Mike McCarthy said people at the meeting voted to install a series of speed tables on Lake Forest Drive just north of Tall Tree Drive. ...more

June 9, 2008

A security checkpoint helped keep a gunman from passing through the Pinellas County Judicial Building on Wednesday, but the system is not in place at the much larger, busier court center in downtown Clearwater. ...more

May 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A security checkpoint system helped keep a gunman from passing through the Pinellas County Judicial Building on Wednesday, but it's not in place at the much larger, busier court center in downtown Clearwater. All visitors to the downtown St. Petersburg court building and the Criminal Justice Center on 49th Street North must walk through a metal detector and have their items screened by magnetometers, or X-ray machines, before entering. In Clearwater, the seat of county government, people enter the main courts complex from several access points. Bailiffs guard only a section of the complex housing the courtrooms and judicial chambers and only visitors to that section are screened by security inspection equipment. ...more

May 7, 2008

Michelle Miller looked at the boards covering the three front windows of her house on West Berry Avenue and sighed. ...more

January 3, 2008

This is not something most drivers want to hear: The process of giving out traffic tickets is getting more efficient. ...more

November 24, 2007