The Legislature has another major headache beside a revenue shortfall on its hands during its 2009 regular session. Lawmakers are coming to more fully understand the enormity of the financial hole they and Gov. Charlie Crist have been digging for Florida taxpayers as they have tried to "protect" them from rate increases from "greedy" insurance companies. ...more

March 14, 2009

Talk about locks of love. Evolutions Hair Design in Spring Hill will host a "Hair-a-thon" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday to raise money for Joe Cascio, an assistant fire chief at the Hernando Beach Volunteer Fire Department who was injured in a car accident last month. ...more

March 14, 2009

A Lakeland man accused of trying to kidnap his estranged wife at gunpoint this week was arrested today in Pinellas County, authorities say. ...more

March 12, 2009

Pinellas County public works engineers expect a preliminary report as early as today on why 2,700 pounds of concrete chunks rained down from the new Belleair Causeway Bridge during a construction mishap February 6 ...more

March 12, 2009

If you have any ideas about how to change Pasco County's economic trajectory, Greg Armstrong wants to hear them. ...more

March 12, 2009

http://enr.votepinellas.com/FL/Pinellas/10275/15076/en/summary.html ...more

March 11, 2009

A Seminole family is upset with the law after a neighbor's pit bull escaped from its yard and killed its puppy Saturday. ...more

March 10, 2009

Christy Lynn Martin may have made bail this weekend after she was arrested on charges she sent pornographic pictures of herself to a 14-year-old boy's cell phone. But now the Azalea Middle School teacher has no place to live. ...more

March 9, 2009

The Bay area's unemployment rate is nearing double-digit levels, with 9.7 percent of the region's work force now jobless. ...more

March 7, 2009