Trash blanketed Seventh Avenue early Sunday morning, the last vestiges of a party that drew thousands of people to Ybor City for the annual Sant' Yago Illuminated Knight Parade. ...more

February 16, 2009

The school district's facilities director faces a three-day suspension for allegedly buying a piece of equipment without the superintendent's permission, records show. ...more

February 14, 2009

The great benefit of this present financial deficit in education is that it provides us with the opportunity to diligently evaluate everything we are presently spending taxpayer money on. Little things add up. Presently, if we added up all the perfectly good fruit that our children are now throwing in the trash, I wonder just how much that would add up to, $200 a day per school. ...more

February 4, 2009

Two Tampa police officers were treated at a local hospital Thursday after they rescued two people from a burning apartment, police said. ...more

January 23, 2009

The man who was shot Wednesday in a robbery attempt that preceded a SWAT standoff used an alias when identifying himself to authorities, police said. ...more

January 8, 2009

Recycling could become as routine as taking out the regular trash for many more Pasco residents, depending on the results of a pilot project. Since June many area neighborhoods have been part of a test program in which waste hauling firm Accurate Waste Systems is gauging the attitudes of some 8,000 customers to recycling. As part of the program, a company flyer is encouraging its customers to become part of a "Lean Green Recycling Machine." ...more

December 31, 2008

PLANT CITY More than 40 students at Shiloh Charter School spent a day last month cleaning two local parks because they wanted to give back to their community. ...more

December 29, 2008

L.B. Gilliam of New Port Richey says the only thing syndicated columnist Rich Lowry does is bash President-elect Barack Obama. ...more

December 20, 2008

Tough economic times are forcing some storage unit renters to stop paying their monthly fee. After they are given several warnings via certified mail, their stuff is auctioned -- and there are people waiting to bid. ...more

December 9, 2008

In February, County Commission members suggested carving Pasco into exclusive service areas for the county's private garbage haulers. Since then we hadn't heard much of the idea. For a while, we were hoping the commissioners were merely pulling an April Fools' Day joke a few months early. ...more

December 6, 2008