When Penny first started planning our Oct. 31 field trip to Riverview Flower Farm, we thought we'd be lucky to get 10 gardeners to come along. ...more

November 8, 2009

The music that normally streams from one small home on West Bates Street is silent. The Garnelo brothers, all musicians who performed together, say it doesn't seem real that the youngest, Shamir, an aspiring disc jockey and rapper, was killed early Saturday morning. "The music was his dream, and now I can't believe he's not here," said Denny Garnelo. Shamir, 21, was killed at a teenage girl's birthday party in Holiday. ...more

November 2, 2009

To Bob Bleakley, the father of one of three friends who did not survive a gulf fishing trip last week, details of a report released Monday about what happened on the boat are inconsequential ...more

March 16, 2009

Helga Zipser of South Tampa celebrated her 84th birthday March 2 at the Plant City Strawberry Festival. ...more

March 11, 2009

Blue Lagoon owner Rob McDarby said there are any number of tricks out there underage patrons will try to get alcohol. ...more

March 10, 2009

Jesse Tyrone Barresse was duck hunting with some two friends and a child near a Ruskin duck pond when he spotted a bald eagle soaring overhead. ...more

March 5, 2009

A second suspect has been arrested in the home invasion that left a 21-year-old Shady Hills man dead in October. ...more

January 27, 2009

The purveyors of pitas at the Pita Pit in Hyde Park are taking the pilfering of a chair very seriously. ...more

January 9, 2009

The purveyors of pitas at the Pita Pit in Hyde Park are taking the pilfering of a chair very seriously. ...more

January 8, 2009

Tonight, millions of people across the country will spend the final moments of 2008 the same way they spend the final moments of every year, staring at television screens as they watch the traditional "ball drop" in Times Square, roughly 1,000 miles away. Two friends decided there's no reason the folks in Manhattan should have all the fun. So as midnight approaches they will debut their own version of the New Year's Eve ball for a West Pasco countdown. ...more

December 31, 2008