County Administrator David Hamilton is a skilled leader who has steered county government toward a new level of efficiency in half a year, according to county commissioners. ...more

September 12, 2008

Try To Be Balanced Regarding "Palin's Speech Excites Some, Leaves Others Unimpressed" (Letters, Sept. 6): ...more

September 12, 2008

A Seven Springs Middle School student was arrested Friday after a search of his backpack revealed a 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun with a round loaded in the chamber, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

September 6, 2008

A Seven Springs Middle School student was arrested today after a search of his backpack revealed a loaded 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. The 12-year-old student, facing a charge of possession of a firearm on a school campus, was taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center. The gun was found when an administrative assistant saw students looking into a backpack and acting suspicious, the sheriff's office reported. The staff member asked what was in the bag, and the boy, a seventh-grader, said it was a BB gun, the report states. The boy said he brought the gun to school to show to a friend, the report states. ...more

September 5, 2008

A 3-year-old boy received "severe bruising" to his legs and buttocks after he was beaten with a belt by a man he called "Uncle Larry," an affidavit states. ...more

September 3, 2008

Democracy is a test for humanity to see who rejects the world or who loves the world. Do people go their own ways and devise their own convenient paths, or do they walk the straight and narrow path of discipline? ...more

September 3, 2008

The students of Hernando County won't take the district's proposed uniform code in silence. ...more

July 30, 2008

A typical day at Equestrian Club Country's horse camp begins with breakfast - for the horses, that is. ...more

July 18, 2008

River Ridge coach Russ Schenk looked to his right, at the wall in his office on the second level of the Jim Valentine Athletic Complex. ...more

June 18, 2008

TAMPA - The next public meeting of the independent commission reviewing Hillsborough County's jails will begin at 10 this morning. ...more

June 2, 2008