An officer deployed his stun gun on a pit bull Saturday night after the dog attacked a chicken, Tampa police say. ...more

November 16, 2009

City leaders spent months debating whether to cut ties with Pasco County Animal Services, but all the hand-wringing and split votes turned out to be for naught. ...more

November 14, 2009

After spending a month of learning about farms, animals and what they do for agriculture, students at Independent Day School-Corbett Campus received a hands-on lesson. ...more

November 4, 2009

After spending a month of learning about farms, animals and what they do for agriculture, students at Independent Day School-Corbett Campus received a hands-on lesson. ...more

November 4, 2009

Volunteers participating in a coastal cleanup Saturday along the Courtney Campbell Causeway made an unexpected discovery - the mutilated carcasses of a goat and two chickens. ...more

September 20, 2009

Being honked off doesn't give you a right to honk on, a judge told a woman who vented at a neighbor by leaning on her car horn at 6 a.m. ...more

June 9, 2009

How nice that our president met with the king of Saudi Arabia. However, it's a good thing he didn't have to show his passport because if he'd been to Israel, he wouldn't have been allowed to enter the country. ...more

June 9, 2009

For a linguistics professor to lose his hearing must be a special kind of living hell. Desmond Bates finds his entire life is changed as he decides he must retire early. "Deaf Sentence" by David Lodge is a funny, yet tragic picture, of Desmond's new life learning to cope with insufficient information. An attractive young American graduate student professes she wants his advice on her thesis, but Desmond is not sure that is all she wants. And his inability to communicate rationally gets him into all types of embarrassing social and professional situations. Then, too, he also has to cope with his 89-year-old father who is refusing to leave his familiar world, though he is really not able to manage on his own. Desmond struggles to juggle his past and current life and is forced to accept the realities of aging and mortality. ...more

February 11, 2009

While millions of people were either directly or indirectly involved in the causes for A.I.G. and other necessary bailouts, if we were limited to only five words as the most responsible, they would be: Bill Clinton and Barney Frank. ...more

February 5, 2009

Firefighters packed city hall on Monday night demanding to know why the city council plans to ask the public whether they would support eliminating the department if it meant lowering property taxes. ...more

January 28, 2009