A trial begins today for the father of 10-month-old Demetrius Blackmon's in the death of the boy. ...more

May 6, 2008

Consumers paid more to fill up their gas tanks, buy groceries and go to the hospital in January as prices on a wide range of items pushed higher. ...more

February 21, 2008

The squall line that blew through Central Florida on Monday couldn't have had lousier timing. Not only did it declare, in soaking fashion, a startling end to a week's worth of chamber of commerce weather, it did so in lock step with the high school bands marching down Seventh Street to proclaim the start of the 61st Pasco County Fair, reducing their traditional trumpeting to so much brass-plated gargling. ...more

February 21, 2008

A plastic surgeon who replaced the fingerprints of a man involved in a drug ring with skin from the bottom of his feet was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison. ...more

February 14, 2008

No one was crying in his beer. Then again, none of the roughly 100 Home Depot call center employees at O'Brien's Irish Pub in Brandon on Jan. 23 was jumping for joy, either. ...more

January 30, 2008

No one was crying in his beer. Then again, none of the roughly 100 Home Depot call center employees at O'Brien's Irish Pub in Brandon on Jan. 23 was jumping for joy, either. ...more

January 28, 2008

A former county employee who acknowledged a role in a scheme that helped scores of illegal immigrants secure driver's licenses was sentenced Tuesday to two years and three months in federal prison and then three years of supervision. ...more

January 23, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The local school district collected fewer sales tax dollars from Penny for Pasco in the first 10 months of 2007 than in the same period the previous year, officials reported Tuesday. ...more

January 23, 2008

TAMPA - A former Hillsborough County employee who admitted a role in a scheme that helped scores of illegal immigrants secure driver's licenses was sentenced this morning to two years and three months in federal prison and then three years of supervision. ...more

January 22, 2008

A 13-year-old girl and her family were praying Tuesday that she would regain her sight after a boy on her school bus stabbed her in the eye with a pen Monday. ...more

January 15, 2008