Commissioners have taken another step toward banning total nudity and lap dances in sexually-oriented businesses. ...more

December 1, 2007

Total nudity and lap dances would be banned in sexually-oriented businesses under proposed changes to city laws. ...more

November 21, 2007

PLANT CITY - Total nudity and lap dances would be banned in sexually-oriented businesses under proposed changes to city laws. The city commission is expected to vote on the revised ordinances during two public hearings scheduled for Nov. 26 and Dec. 10. The proposed changes tighten adult entertainment laws that last were revised in 2005, City Attorney Ken Buchman said. ...more

November 16, 2007

TAMPA – A major training exercise is under way at the military bombing range outside of Avon Park for troops about to be deployed to U.S. Central Command Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

November 5, 2007

On Sept. 28 we took I-75 toward Miami to fly to Peru. By 3:15 p.m. the car was in storage, and we were at the airport awaiting our 1:35 a.m. departure. ...more

November 4, 2007

PUNTA GORDA - An act of peace turned sour Thursday when a Scott Street man rehung a noose beneath the faded Confederate flag in his yard. The flag and noose had been a fixture in Michael Whiteaker's yard for about three years, until a black neighbor persuaded him to take the noose down last week. ...more

October 26, 2007

Ever drive through a city and get the feeling upon entering the city limits that citizens there value beauty and serenity? ...more

October 25, 2007

Rose Ferlita made the switch from Tampa city council to the Hillsborough County Commission nearly a year ago. ...more

October 24, 2007

Rose Mohr could smell the smoke in the air as she walked up Massachusetts Avenue in the dark early Thursday morning. ...more

October 5, 2007

Rose Mohr could smell the smoke in the air as she walked up Massachusetts Avenue in the dark early this morning. She got the call about 3 a.m. that her business, Massachusetts Avenue Farm Market, was burning. But by the time she maneuvered around the emergency vehicles and walked on the wet asphalt, the flames were already extinguished. Smoke billowed around her as she surveyed the damage. ...more

October 4, 2007