Police Chief Russell Barnes, one of two men at the center of an investigation of payroll discrepancies in the city's police department, is expected to be fired by the city council today. ...more

August 19, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board has given tentative approval to a $1.2 billion budget for 2008-09, a spending plan for schools that represents a drop of more than 7 percent from the current fiscal year. ...more

July 31, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board will hold its first hearing on the 2008-09 budget Tuesday as it prepares for what is expected to be a tight financial year that could get even worse with more state funding cuts and rising gas and electricity prices. ...more

July 24, 2008

Tiny Kosovo - poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western - braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people followed by years of limbo under U.N. rule. ...more

February 17, 2008

So, Charlie Crist's "drop like a rock" property tax relief amendment passed. I'm really glad. ...more

February 15, 2008

State senators, who grilled Allstate executives under oath at a Capitol hearing last week, on Thursday requested a slew of documents relating to how the insurer sets its homeowners' rates. ...more

February 14, 2008

The John Deere tractor's headlights cut a path through the country dusk on Thursday with the state's most powerful politician aboard. ...more

February 8, 2008

The John Deere tractor's headlights cut a path through the country dusk on Thursday with the state's most powerful politician aboard. ...more

February 8, 2008

The head of Allstate Floridian pleaded poverty as the reason behind rising homeowners insurance rates on Monday, insisting the back-to-back four-storm seasons of 2004-05 nearly crippled the company and continue to squeeze its ability to cover claims. ...more

February 4, 2008

One by one, they took to the podium to make their pleas. ...more

January 18, 2008