Florida's Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has set up a task force to protect the state's elderly from financial fraud. The task force had its first meeting Monday in Tampa, hearing from victims with an eye on proposing legislation to toughen state statutes. ...more

October 7, 2008

At times, every child needs a caring, communicative comrade. To that end, Northside Mental Health Center operates PhoneFriend, a telephone hot line for latchkey children seeking assistance with homework or wanting to discuss more personal issues. ...more

October 1, 2008

Calvin and Hobbes? Dennis and Ruff? - set up a stand for selling apples. The price is exorbitant, maybe $100 an apple. ...more

September 17, 2008

With complaints of rocketing gas prices burying the state's price-gouging hot line, Attorney General Bill McCollum on Sunday issued subpoenas to four fuel companies that raised prices dramatically in recent days. ...more

September 15, 2008

Hillsborough schools Superintendent Mary Ellen Elia launches a series of town hall meetings at Hillsborough High School tonight at a time when the district is still wrestling with complaints about new school bus routes. ...more

September 2, 2008

An unsettling sense of the past repeating itself pervaded this city Wednesday as Gustav crept this way through the Caribbean, two days before Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary. ...more

August 28, 2008

Parents who are frustrated in trying to call the school district's Transportation Call Center have other options for finding where the bus will pick up their children Monday morning, when Hillsborough County public schools open. ...more

August 17, 2008

TAMPA - Parents frustrated in trying to call the school district's Transportation Call Center have other options for finding where the bus will pick up their children Monday morning, when Hillsborough County public schools open. ...more

August 16, 2008

Hillsborough County parents were still having problems late Friday afternoon reaching the school district to find out where their children's bus will pick them up on Monday. ...more

August 16, 2008

Hillsborough County school officials experienced problems with the school bus telephone hot line this morning. ...more

August 15, 2008