If you plan to teach a room full of kindergartners about their five senses, it helps to stock up on sour lemons, salty popcorn and a boombox and be ready to host a dance party. ...more

March 25, 2009

Perhaps you held off buying that new refrigerator, or didn't buy a new home altogether. Either way, that meant a bit less garbage on the way to the landfill. ...more

March 23, 2009

Firefighters have managed to secure an area in eastern Hernando County where a 600-acre brush fire threatened at least 50 homes. ...more

March 22, 2009

The first day of practice, Hillsborough High boys basketball coach Andre Lewis told the county All-Star team to treat Friday's Hillsborough-Pinellas County Senior All-Star Game as if it was a regular-season game. ...more

March 21, 2009

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has declined to overturn lower court decisions against a new sentencing hearing for Patrick Charles Hannon, condemned to die for cutting a man's throat and fatally shooting another in Tampa 18 years ago. ...more

March 21, 2009

This is a time of great doubt and uncertainty. At such a moment it is good to have something on which we can all hang our hats. Last week, the city of Oldsmar received a message on which all the hats in town could be hung: the residents of East Lake Woodlands do want to join you. ...more

March 21, 2009

A Pinellas County cleaner was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty today to killing his boss and setting him and his vehicle on fire. ...more

March 20, 2009

The state of Florida wants to know why Pinellas County failed to alert state engineers about a construction mishap involving a new bridge under construction. ...more

March 20, 2009

State authorities have arrested a Pinellas County man accused of running an unregistered telemarketing operation. ...more

March 19, 2009

With the recession raging, are people still visiting Tampa for a vacation? Answers could come today. ...more

March 19, 2009