Cal-Maine Foods, the nation's largest egg distributor, has moved administrative offices for its Florida operations to the Dade City Business Center. ...more

May 7, 2009

Pasco County opens bids today for a new traffic light at Williamsburg Drive and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. It's intended to ease congestion being driven by a growing number of residents and the nearby Shoppes at New Tampa and the Shops at Wiregrass mall. ...more

January 15, 2009

A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City on Sunday while an Iraqi died when a bicycle-riding suicide bomber blew himself up amid a mass rally against Israel's airstrikes on Gaza. ...more

December 28, 2008

Been to your favorite restaurant lately? You might want to go soon. Goodness knows if it will be there tomorrow, what with the way eateries and chains have been closing and filing for bankruptcy. These are rough times. ...more

October 5, 2008

County officials on Thursday cleared the builders of State Road 56 to work round-the-clock as they rush to finish the first leg of the road in time for the Oct. 30 opening of the Shops at Wiregrass mall. ...more

August 29, 2008

County officials today cleared the builders of State Road 56 to work round-the-clock as they rush to finish the first leg of the road in time for the Oct. 30 opening of the Shops at Wiregrass mall. County Administrator John Gallagher and the Development Review Committee OK'd a 24-hour-a-day schedule for a 10-day period starting in mid-September. Crews will be laying asphalt for the six-lane road, said Jim Richardson, vice president of Forest City Enterprises, one of the companies involved in the road project. Forest City is overseeing the section of S.R. 56 that passes in front of its 800,000-square-foot outdoor shopping plaza. ...more

August 28, 2008

MASON, Ohio - Robbie "Kaptain" Knievel, son of the late daredevil Evel Knievel, successfully jumped over 24 delivery trucks Saturday night at the site of one of his father's most famous stunts. ...more

May 25, 2008

As retailers experiment with grand ideas to help the environment and conserve energy, they have discovered a simpler and perhaps more practical solution: use less power and cut down on waste. ...more

January 27, 2008

AVON PARK — Tom Macklin was cracking up over the truck traffic along Main Street, and his house on that street, according to him, was literally cracking up as well. Although other neighbors disputed whether truck vibrations created the crack along his stoop and the foundation of his house, several of them also notice delivery trucks, haulers and full-size tractor trailers heading right into downtown Avon Park. "We get semis coming through here," said another Main Street resident who did not wish to be identified. ...more

September 16, 2007

Construction on the new Wal-Mart Supercenter on Gandy Boulevard is scheduled to begin in March and last nine months, Wal-Mart officials told residents this week. ...more

September 15, 2007