TAMPA The city council's decision two weeks ago to extend Tampa's anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals was a move long overdue, its supporters say. To the leaders of evangelical Christian groups, the inclusion of "gender identity and expression" as a protected class under the city's human rights ordinance is an assault on their religious values that they fear will sanction sexually deviant behavior. ...more

November 17, 2009

In this town, people must pay to pee. A 20-year drought has caused a critical water shortage. To control its consumption residents are forced to do their restroom activities in public facilities with a fee. ...more

April 1, 2009

What a relief! The free public restrooms operated by the Charmin toilet paper company in Times Square during the holidays have been rolled out for another year. ...more

November 25, 2008

No windows were broken, no electronics stolen and no jewelry taken after thieves struck Mark and Barbara Holt's home recently. The only thing missing were the couple's aluminum gutters. ...more

July 26, 2008

Members of the Sponge Docks Merchants Association told city officials the municipality needs to focus on its main tourist area that has started to look sad and shabby. ...more

July 19, 2008

SEBRING — In the 1960s, Virginia Neel worked behind the front counter at Sebring's first public library, and soon she will be working in the same exact site –– this time as the president of Highlands County Genealogical Society. Members of the genealogical society will be manning the front desk of the renovated downtown Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce office in exchange for storage space for the genealogy books. Neel said she thought of the idea one night when she couldn't sleep. "I had been in another welcome center with a genealogical society office, and it was very convenient," Neel said. "I knew this building had been a library, so there is plenty of space, and it just worked out perfectly." ...more

January 29, 2008

You've Not Been Robbed By A Stapler-Wielding Man ASHLAND, Ky. - A man wearing a ski mask used a stapler to hold up an eastern Kentucky ice cream store - and briefly got away with $175, authorities said. ...more

November 22, 2007

There was plenty of show but little time for telling county planners how residents want the area to develop. ...more

October 27, 2007

SEBRING — Downtown merchants are asked daily for their restrooms, but soon visitors to the Circle will have another place to go. ...more

October 25, 2007

A 42-year-old man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after exposing an artificial penis to adolescent boys in locker rooms at community pools and public restrooms, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

September 12, 2007