I'm writing to the ATV riders who deliberately ran into and drove on my auto, parked at the Highlands Preserve on Feb. 16. Your thoughtless "fun" will cost me $1,500 to repair; but it will also add to the growing list of ATV problems and complaints in Highlands County. The recent ATV fatality, along with problems at Arbuckle Creek, and your actions, will ban or limit county ATV riding for responsible operators and fools like you. A fun sport ruined by thoughtless few. ...more

February 22, 2008

My letter is in regard to the four-wheel ATV accident in Orange Blossom Estates last week. I have for seven years tried to get the four-wheel ATV vehicles off our county roads and the rights of way, with little success. In 2007 there was an accident on Canter Path Silver Fox. A young man speeding, wrecked and had to be airlifted in critical condition. Now we have a fatality and another hospitalized. It is time that the laws regarding ATVs be changed. Captain Blackman of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office stated that the fine for using an ATV on our roads is on $78; this is not sufficient and needs to be amended. The price of an officer to respond, wear and tear on the vehicle and the cost of fuel is greater than $78. This law needs to be amended. A four-wheel ATV is like a car or even a gun in the wrong hands, under the wrong conditions. People are severely injured and in this case killed. ...more

February 19, 2008

SEBRING — The father of Dorothy "Dolly" Trevelyan confirmed Wednesday that she's the Sebring resident who died Tuesday as a result of injuries she sustained during a Saturday night ATV accident. Thornton Trevelyan, of 7203 Sparta Road, said that Dolly, 50, was involved in the accident at approximately 11 p.m., Saturday, while driving on Cherry Road near Sebring. ...more

February 13, 2008

Hillsborough County is considering a proposal to install cameras at intersections, a move that police say would save lives and cut down on the number of motorists running red lights. ...more

February 7, 2008

Hillsborough County has taken the first steps toward joining communities across the nation in putting up cameras at intersections and snapping photos of red-light runners. ...more

January 26, 2008

TAMPA - Cameras at red lights, which police say save lives and drastically cut the number of light-jumpers, may be coming to Hillsborough County in the near future. Hillsborough County commissioners today gave the sheriff's office a green light to further investigate installing the cameras at 10 of the county's most dangerous intersections. The intersections were not identified. ...more

January 16, 2008

Stalking "is a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear," according to a National Center for Victims of Crime Stalking fact sheet supplied at Monday's Pasco County Fatality Review Team news conference. ...more

January 15, 2008

A National Transportation Safety Board inquiry into the deadly train-pickup crash that killed 10 people Oct. 2, 1977, underscores the danger of area railroad crossings and called for corrective action and the installation of safety gates, lights and reflectors at the state's most vulnerable corridor. ...more

October 4, 2007

DADE CITY Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating an early morning fatality in a single-car crash on U.S. 301 at Payne Road. A man was driving his 1992 Oldsmobile sedan south on U.S. 301 in the outside lane about 2:10 a.m. and ran off the road and onto the west shoulder, according to a patrol report. ...more

September 25, 2007

DADE CITY - No people were injured, but a cow died Thursday morning after being hit by a car on U.S. 301, south of Dade City. ...more

September 6, 2007