If a "grand" tree grows in Safety Harbor, the city will protect it. Last week, the City Commission voted to enact a "grand" tree ordinance. The ordinance contains regulations to protect trees labeled grand based on their size and other factors. ...more

November 17, 2007

Daniel Parbel looked decidedly uncomfortable when detectives questioned him on Oct. 10, 2005, about John Benjamin's death. ...more

November 16, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY - Opening statements are to begin this afternoon in Daniel Parbel's first-degree murder trial. Two years ago, authorities say, the Hudson man killed John J. Benjamin, who owed money to the stepdaughter of then-Port Richey police Chief Bill Sager. ...more

November 13, 2007

Two people are dead in a five-car accident at Interstate 275 and Gandy Blvd., Florida Highway Patrol Lt. M.D. Hensley said. The accident occurred at 10:44 p.m. Sunday. ...more

October 29, 2007

A mysterious Syrian military facility that was reportedly the target of an attack by Israeli jets last month has been razed, according to a new satellite image that shows only a vacant lot in the place where Syria was recently constructing what some U.S. officials believe was a nuclear reactor. ...more

October 26, 2007

TAMPA - Firefighters were on the scene of a road construction accident today in which they needed a bucket truck to lift an injured man off a barge in the Hillsborough River. ...more

October 9, 2007

Barbara Ellen Mongee was never far from home. The mystery surrounding the Seffner woman's whereabouts ended Friday after 14 years. Dental records determined bones found in a hidden grave less than a mile from her house were the remains of the 37-year-old mother. ...more

October 6, 2007

Detectives say they have solved a missing person case that is more than a decade old. ...more

October 5, 2007

A construction worker found an adult skull and some bones Monday afternoon at a Seffner construction site. ...more

September 24, 2007

North Port police hope two billboards will help generate clues about the slaying of a 6-year-old girl. ...more

September 17, 2007