Editor's note: The following letter was sent to the friends of Sherry and Walt Searle of Spring Hill and is reprinted here at the authors' request. ...more

September 18, 2008

The city is one step closer to charging insurance companies - or uninsured out-of-towners - for services provided when the police and fire departments respond to a car wreck or house fire. ...more

September 17, 2008

Could recover $150,000 a year, official says. ...more

September 17, 2008

It used to be that tax revenue was enough to cover the costs incurred by police and fire department when they respond to a fire or car accident. ...more

September 14, 2008

Firefighter Paul Sanzone endured humiliation last year. The city claimed he verbally threatened a supervisor. After 17 years on the job, Sanzone was fired. ...more

September 9, 2008

Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation has rejected State Farm Florida's request for a hearing after the agency denied the company's request last month to raise homeowners insurance an average of 47 percent, the agency said today. ...more

September 5, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay's return to the west coast came with a bang for Amanda Braswell. ...more

August 23, 2008

Peter Padilla's drug debts were more important to him than his brand new Cadillac Escalade. That's what the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says in court documents charging Padilla, 49, with arson, burning to defraud an insurer, making false insurance claims, dealing in stolen property and making a false report to law enforcement. ...more

August 21, 2008

Hillsborough residents with homes built before June 18, 1980, can get reduced flood insurance rates if they hurry. ...more

August 15, 2008

It's getting into the heart of August and hurricane season and tropical depressions are lining up out in the Atlantic, so I shouldn't have been all that surprised when an angry wind whipped through the house and circled around my head. ...more

August 13, 2008