If you're up to no good at WestShore Plaza, beware: Mall security guards may chase you down in their new stand-up scooters. ...more

November 24, 2008

TAMPA If you're up to no good at WestShore Plaza, beware: Mall security guards may chase you down in their new stand-up scooters. WestShore Plaza recently purchased two T3 Motion scooters at $10,000 apiece and has trained a few guards in their use. ...more

November 19, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay brought Lake Jackson up more than half a foot, according to a reading of the lake's gauge, and the storm partially restored several other county lakes whose levels dropped several feet after two years of drought. ...more

August 24, 2008

Arbuckle Creek overflowed after Tropical Storm Fay barreled through Highlands County, causing widespread flooding that placed several neighborhoods under more than a foot of water Wednesday. ...more

August 21, 2008

"This is the perfect storm, for us," Steve "Plunkett" Coltharp, interim director of Highlands County EMS, said as he stood under the bay roof that protected two ambulances from the rain at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday. ...more

August 20, 2008

The good Samaritan who offered to pay for the surgery of a dog that may have been attacked by an alligator last week will adopt the dog this afternoon. Bob Reina, who paid for the surgery, "has reportedly fallen in love with this gentle spirit," according to a news release from Hillsborough County Animal Services. ...more

August 5, 2008

I would bet that there are very few who would complain about the nightly rain we have been receiving the past week. I have just finished checking the water level and found that Lake Grassy has risen almost eight inches in the past week. At this rate of eight inches of rain every day for a week, we need at least five solid weeks of everyday downpours to fill Lake Grassy, which is still about 40 inches low. ...more

July 3, 2008

We have entered into the time of year when the majority feeding migration occurs during the night. The new and full moon events happen either very late or early in the day — this means daytime fishing decreases in intensity unless the weather conditions trump the lunar cycle. However, the season of the "early morning bite" starts whenever there is an early morning full or new moon, which happens to be the case tomorrow when the new moon occurs at 5:01 a.m. So, get out on the water as soon as possible because at safe light the "big fish" is on and should be all week. ...more

October 10, 2007