Barbara Stewart, chairman of the Highlands County commissioners, called for greater emphasis on planning, efficiency, accountability and oversight in county government as she spoke to the Highlands County Homeowners Association Monday morning. ...more

December 9, 2008

TAMPA -- One of three people trapped by burglar bars in a house fire Monday has died, Tampa Fire Rescue officials say. Latoya Williams-Jones, 26, died late Monday at Tampa General Hospital, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. ...more

December 9, 2008

Smashed. That's what we saw. That's what America saw. Trampled. That's what happened to the Bucs in Carolina. ...more

December 9, 2008

Ticket brokers are asking more than $1,000 on average for the Florida-Oklahoma national championship game on Jan. 8, the most expensive of bowl game tickets this season, a survey of 800 brokers by TicketCity.com reported Monday. ...more

December 9, 2008

Dozens of parents, students and faculty members at Rio Vista Elementary gathered for a Save Our School rally Monday morning, holding signs and chanting "Save Rio Vista." ...more

December 9, 2008

The odd cloud formation seen around the Tampa Bay area on Monday morning initially caused some head scratching around here, but it turns out to have been a rare formation but one documented before. ...more

November 25, 2008

Christopher Gamble, who told a judge he thought he deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison, will have his life sentence reduced to less than 16 years. ...more

November 25, 2008

Forecast models seem to pretty well agree that the next noticeable cool front will show up Thanksgiving Day. The holiday will start out in the middle 40s around the Tampa Bay area and upper 30s in Hernando. Pasco might start the morning in the low 40s. ...more

November 23, 2008

Hundreds of students gathered to watch a high school brawl that resulted in an injured teacher and two arrests. ...more

November 19, 2008

Like a lot of Tampa Bay area residents, bundled up Art Robinson conceded Monday morning that he doesn't like to get cold. Robinson was waiting near the Ballast Point Pier during a chilly sunrise for the fitness class he teaches to begin next door. This morning will be another chilly one, but not nearly as frigid as Wednesday morning, when a secondary dose of cold, crisp Canadian air will sink southward into Florida. Temperatures tonight will plunge into the middle and upper 30s in Tampa and dip below freezing north of the area. A gradual warming trend is expected after that, but it will be Friday before the mercury climbs back above 70 for daytime highs, forecasters say. ...more

November 18, 2008