Art Meets Entertainment is producing a Nov. 21 show featuring lip-syncing to popular tunes. The event, Lip Sync 2009 In the Neighborhood, is a fundraiser for the Plant City Community Development Corp., a not for profit neighborhood improvement organization. The event will be at the John R. Trinkle Community Center at 2206 E. Cherry St., on the local campus of Hillsborough Community College. ...more

November 7, 2009

Eighth-graders in Tampa Preparatory School's middle school have joined Meals on Wheels Adopt-A-Route, joining several Tampa Prep faculty who have had an Adopt-A-Route for more than a year. ...more

October 28, 2009

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An amateur historian says the wreckage of an Air Force jet believed lost at sea 54 years ago with two crewmen aboard has been found off the coast of Southern California. ...more

September 28, 2009

Hernando obituaries ...more

September 13, 2009

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is once again partnering with Sweetbay Supermarket in the seventh annual "Bowl for a Cure" fundraising event. ...more

May 17, 2009

Last Friday the U.S. Labor Department announced that nearly 540,000 Americans lost their jobs in April. As bad as that sounds, last month's jobless total was less than most economists had predicted. In fact, it was the lowest increase in joblessness in 14 months. Of late there have been a few other signs that the economy may not be recovering yet but its rate of decline has begun to slow. ...more

May 13, 2009

Manny Esperon recently was named Health Care and Health Education Volunteer of the Year by the United Way. ...more

May 6, 2009

The 17th annual "Stamp-Out-Hunger" Postal Food Drive will be held Saturday, May 9. ...more

April 23, 2009

A volunteer treasurer at the Port Tampa United Methodist Church is accused of stealing $216,000 in church funds to support drug and gambling habits, police said. ...more

April 8, 2009

I find myself actually agreeing wholeheartedly with a letter by Gabriel Read. Read wrote to encourage your readers to fill in the void taken up by our snowbirds. His emphasis was volunteerism; something of a shock because I would have expected his answer to be more government involved. ...more

April 4, 2009