Golden Pleas was running errands Monday morning when she saw a GMC Acadia SUV overturned across the eastbound lanes of East Hillsborough Avenue that looked just like the one her son left in that morning. ...more

December 31, 2007

If the East Hillsborough Historical Society decides to allow a companion piece to the Confederate Cow Cavalry memorial, it must seek city permission. ...more

December 19, 2007

Christmas will be exciting for the Doty family. Lindsay and Donna Doty's son, Justin, 24, who has been in Fort Benning, Ga., for nine weeks of basic training in the Army, is home for a visit. ...more

December 17, 2007

Gov. Charlie Crist, the self-proclaimed "people's governor," says he believes in open government. ...more

December 16, 2007

PLANT CITY - If the East Hillsborough Historical Society decides to allow a companion piece to the controversial Confederate Cow Cavalry memorial, it must seek city permission. ...more

December 12, 2007

Opponents said a cautious goodbye this week to the Brandon Bypass, a conceptual loop around Hillsborough County's population centers that critics maintained would destroy rural communities and preservation tracts and promote urban sprawl in south and east Hillsborough. ...more

December 8, 2007

Opponents said a cautious goodbye this week to the Brandon Bypass, a conceptual loop around Hillsborough County's population centers that critics maintained would destroy rural communities and preservation tracts and promote urban sprawl in south and east Hillsborough. ...more

December 8, 2007

A day after his life came unraveled to the squeal of tires and clash of metal, Eugene Eichorn recuperated at home. ...more

December 6, 2007

TAMPA - A day after his life came unraveled to the squeal of tires and snarl of metal, Eugene Eichorn was recuperating at home. The gravity of what happened early Tuesday morning -- the violent death of his fiancée, Tonya Ellis -- had yet to sink in, he said. ...more

December 5, 2007

The Brandon Bypass is bygone, at least for now. Activists trying to reform the county's growth management policies have been pressuring elected officials to remove the conceptual highway from all planning maps. Tuesday, they saw their efforts succeed, as officials voted unanimously to take the penciled route that would sweep through southeastern Hillsborough off the Metropolitan Planning Organization's list of needed transportation improvements for 2025. ...more

December 5, 2007