Don't create a school calendar for 2009-10 just yet. ...more

November 19, 2008

Despite gloomy economic trends, groundbreakings for a bank and office building are good news in one of the city's redevelopment areas. ...more

November 19, 2008

Police are looking for a 23-year-old woman in connection with a failed carjacking Monday in which the car's owner shot at her and a man investigators say also was involved. ...more

November 18, 2008

Election Day went relatively smoothly at most Plant City area polls, including several where voters slowed to a trickle late in the day, providing procrastinators to cast line-free, eleventh-hour ballots. ...more

November 12, 2008

David Storck will step down as chairman of the Hillsborough County Republican Party and will support Deborah Cox-Roush, currently special events coordinator, to replace him. ...more

November 11, 2008

Perhaps the toughest part of naming a high school after the strawberry is finding a mascot. Young people in Plant City wonder: "Wouldn't it be tough to go out on the football field being 'strawberry something?'" ...more

November 3, 2008

A city project to replace 12th Street sewer pipes is on schedule, the contractor says, but a pocket park on Park Circle and surrounding streets will be closed to through traffic until March. ...more

October 22, 2008

Shannon Lise took his 5-year-old son on a high-speed chase Sunday night, Tampa police say. Officers in the Robles Park Apartments saw Lise's black Chevrolet traveling north on Hayden Court without headlights on at 10:44 p.m. Sunday. They activated lights and sirens, stopping the vehicle near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Interstate 275. ...more

October 6, 2008

Eileen Hart, who made headlines a decade ago for calling out the overpumping of groundwater, displayed moral courage again this week by returning the Moral Courage Award she won 12 years ago from the Hillsborough County Commission. ...more

October 4, 2008

During his sophomore season, Kyle Myers ran the one-mile and two-mile races as a member of the Riverview High School varsity track and field team. ...more

September 24, 2008