A black night, a slick road and high winds turned an evening of socializing with friends into a frightening brush with disaster that left two young women trapped in a local retention pond. ...more

December 22, 2007

Two women trapped in an overturned car were saved in Plant City by a trooper and two deputies early Sunday morning. ...more

December 16, 2007

The Brandon High School choirs and the Plant City High School choir and orchestra will perform "La Messe de Minuit" (Midnight Mass) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier at 7 p.m. Tuesday, in the Plant City High School auditorium, One Raider Place, off Alexander Street. The Tomlin Middle School chorus also will sing selections during the evening. ...more

December 8, 2007

Items of interest from Monday's commission meeting include: •A public hearing was set for Dec. 10 on a rezoning for a proposed hotel near North Park and South Frontage roads. If approved, the land will be rezoned to accommodate a four-story, 100-room hotel that will be managed by New Moon Hospitality, according to a city staff report. The public hearing will be during the city commission's 7:30 p.m. meeting. ...more

December 1, 2007

Jamie Bertomeu decided she didn't want toys for her 9th birthday. She wanted to do something to help fight cancer, a disease her mother, Cindy, has been fighting for years. ...more

November 21, 2007

A string of armed robberies targeting migrant workers led to a car chase Tuesday that ended with the arrests of five suspects. ...more

November 7, 2007

By the end of November, a portion of the city's $56 million wastewater plant will come online to process and return treated water to the environment. ...more

November 3, 2007

The Plant City Police Department is seeking to renew the state accreditation it first received in 2004. ...more

October 31, 2007

An act of animal cruelty has two 13-year-old sisters grieving the slaughter of their beloved show pigs. Lindsey and Leann Farkas went to feed the 6-to-8-week old pigs about 9:30 a.m. Saturday when they discovered someone had broken into their locked pen overnight and savagely killed the small animals. ...more

October 20, 2007

PLANT CITY – The old police station at 611 S. Collins St. will be demolished as the city seeks to revitalize the area south of downtown. ...more

October 17, 2007