On June 29, with my car hood up on Brandon Boulevard at Gornto Lake in the Outback Steakhouse parking lot, I was waiting for roadside assistance when a man in a well-kept Tahoe stopped to ensure I was OK. ...more

July 5, 2009

New law a life saver A recent article in this paper indicates the state of Florida has finally caught up with my 2007 Buick Lucerne. Since the day I drove it out of the Rick Mathews Buick parking lot, it lets me know if I have failed to fasten my seat belt. If I have a passenger in the other front seat, the car also beeps again to indicate that the other seat belt should also be fastened. ...more

July 5, 2009

The new law concerning buckling up is long overdue. A seat belt probably kept me from being seriously hurt in a wreck once. But requiring us to buckle up while permitting us to text message does not make much sense. ...more

July 2, 2009

A Largo police officer going through some old shotgun shells a woman had turned in for proper disposal at the police station found something else in the mix Sunday morning: a half-stick of dynamite. ...more

June 29, 2009

Salah al Jbory is in no mood to celebrate. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on his countrymen to revel today to mark the ostensible departure of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities by the end of the month. ...more

June 29, 2009

As part of its Operation3D Heightened Patrol, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office will set up a DUI checkpoint tonight at Bell Shoals Road and Bloomingdale Avenue. ...more

June 26, 2009

More than 70 firefighter candidates navigated the physical agility test ...more

June 23, 2009

Pinellas Park police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck one car, and then another, on 66th Street this morning. ...more

June 22, 2009

Friends of 17-year-old Dustin Sean White gathered Sunday afternoon around the cordoned-off clubhouse parking lot where the teen was shot and killed early Sunday morning. ...more

June 15, 2009

Friends of 17-year-old Dustin Sean White gathered Sunday afternoon around the cordoned off clubhouse parking lot where the teen was shot and killed early this morning. ...more

June 14, 2009