Kraft Foods has gone hostile in its bid to buy Cadbury but didn't sweeten its first bid, drawing an immediate rejection from the British candymaker in what likely will be a lengthy takeover struggle. ...more

November 10, 2009

Here's your official warning. The traffic camera at the northbound intersection of Broad Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard began taking snapshots of red light runners on Monday. The next 28 days, however, are just a warning period. ...more

April 1, 2009

Faced with less money, the Pasco County Library System is trying to get more out of its existing collection. ...more

September 24, 2008

As Hillsborough County struggles to understand why black babies here and elsewhere in Florida die more frequently than white ones, one local agency is bucking the disturbing trend. ...more

July 5, 2008

SEBRING — Maybe it was because he was in great shape. Maybe it was Darrel Smith's helmet that made the difference and saved his life after a car struck his bike in August. Perhaps, Smith thought, it was the thousands of prayers given for him from other park rangers, his fellow bicyclists and the entire community. In a little more than three months, Smith came out of a month-long medically induced coma, regained 20 pounds of lost muscle and just last Thursday took a two-mile ride on his tricycle for the first time since the accident. "Yes, it hurt like hell... I got nine pieces of stainless steel (in me) right now. Two of them are cables," he said, showing his right hip. His smile and his beaming optimism goes against the grain of the aches he described. Smith's trainer, Keith A. Bowyer Jr., thinks it was Smith's drive that got him where he is now. Smith's hoping by Friday that he will get back on his job at Highlands Hammock State Park. By Christmas, Smith's hoping he can try out a bicycle. ...more

December 11, 2007