DADE CITY - Emergency crews are working to contain oil spilling from an overturned tanker truck in a rural area outside Dade City. ...more

July 9, 2008

Hurricane Bertha surprised forecasters by jumping from a storm with 90 mph winds to a Category 3 hurricane with winds of about 115 mph. ...more

July 8, 2008

TAMPA - Hurricane Bertha will continue to grow stronger as it churns west across the Atlantic Ocean, but forecasters think the storm will begin making a curve to the north in a day or so. ...more

July 7, 2008

Team Macular Regeneration, a four-man cycling squad organized by Odessa triathlon coach Bo Webster, completed the 3,014-mile Race Across America from Oceanside, Calif., to Annapolis, Md., late June 19. ...more

June 30, 2008

Trashing A/C units for the copper wire inside is so 2007. A metal box bolted to the asphalt behind a Spring Hill medical clinic was stolen some time this weekend. Inside was a smaller box holding radiological medical waste. ...more

June 26, 2008

TAMPA - A switch feeding electricity to the Criminal Justice Center in Clearwater failed today, causing a power outage that lasted about six hours and interrupting court proceedings. ...more

June 16, 2008

TAMPA - A Lutz man under the influence of narcotics left his 11-year-old mentally disabled child home alone, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Don Fredrick Ellis, 37, on Sunday night. ...more

June 16, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Highlands County Sheriff's Office and Lake Placid Police Department were investigating a Saturday morning shooting which occurred at 242 Phoenix Ave. after an altercation at the Hideaway Lounge on U.S. 27. ...more

June 7, 2008

Gator hunters who were denied a permit by a computer glitch will have a second chance when the state opens another round of applications June 17. ...more

June 6, 2008

Disappointed gator hunters prevented from getting a permit this week by a balky computer will have a second chance when the state opens another round of applications on June 17. ...more

June 5, 2008