Everybody jokes about how a committee is the place ideas go to die, a group that keeps minutes and wastes hours. ...more

November 17, 2009

Stacy Frank has filed to run for the District 57 state House seat held by term-limited Republican Faye Culp. ...more

November 6, 2009

Thomas Scott Long was cleared by an air traffic controller to land on Runway 27 at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport about 8:15 p.m. Oct. 23. ...more

November 4, 2009

Killed in a fiery single-engine plane crash Friday night in Zephyrhills were a 46-year-old mother newly married only a week ago and her 7-year-old daughter whom she had just picked up for a weekend visit, according to a friend of the child's father. ...more

October 25, 2009

Push TECO To Be Greener After nearly three and a half hours of facts, figures, opinions and pleas, Tampa City Council members Charlie Miranda, Gwen Miller, Thomas Scott and Joseph Caetano voted against delaying approval of the 25-year franchise agreement with Tampa Electric Company. The delay would have given all of us time see and hear the changes sought by President-elect Barack Obama pertaining to energy generation and its effect on climate change as well as the effect the fiscal crises might have on jobs and other opportunities in the near future. The delay would have given concerned citizens and groups time to work with the city and TECO to solve the problems pointed out by the 40-plus people present and the hundreds who communicated with council members with letters and e-mails. ...more

December 6, 2008

a 25-year-old Port Richey man was arrested Thursday, accused of shooting a man at the Calendar Girls strip club. Derrick Henry "Casper" Carr, of 8915 Sterling Lane, was arrested at his home in connection to Wednesday's shooting of 23-year-old Thomas Scott Pryor outside the club at 16309 U.S. 19. According to sheriff's office reports, Carr became upset when Pryor smacked a dancer's buttocks. It wasn't clear whether she was working or if Carr knows her personally. ...more

October 31, 2008

TAMPA - Thomas Scott Purks, a freelance reporter and photographer for The Tampa Tribune, was arrested this morning on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence. Purks, who regularly contributes stories to the Tribune's sports section, refused to have his blood alcohol level tested, and Tampa police arrested him at Brorein and Morgan streets, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Jail Web site shows. ...more

July 1, 2008

TAMPA The long-awaited opening of the IKEA store moved forward today with a groundbreaking in which city officials and IKEA executives glad-handed and back-slapped one another, all the while marveling at what a wonderful fit Tampa is for the Swedish furniture store. ...more

June 4, 2008

The city council sent a 31-unit town home project back to the drawing board so developers and city staff can search for a compromise on its design. ...more

February 18, 2008

The city council has postponed a decision to approve an extended-stay hotel on Columbus Drive to allow developers to meet with residents. ...more

December 29, 2007