TAMPA Downtown has become a little more colorful – at least at night. ...more

December 16, 2008

The city skyline will get a new look starting next week. The owners of the SunTrust building downtown have hired a theatrical lighting company to install outdoor lights to allow for more color choices: red and green for Christmas, pink for breast cancer awareness, green for St. Patrick's Day, and so on. ...more

December 13, 2008

TAMPA - The city skyline will get a new look starting next week. The owners of the SunTrust building downtown have hired a theatrical lighting company to install outdoor lights to allow for more color choices: red and green for Christmas, pink for breast cancer awareness, green for St. Patrick's Day, and so on. ...more

December 12, 2008

A Dover home was used to grow 144 marijuana plants, Hillsborough County deputies say. On Tuesday afternoon at 14607 Walden Sheffield Road, deputies found the plants being cultivated within a garage. The garage was equipped with marijuana grow equipment and powered by unmetered electricity, according to deputies. ...more

December 10, 2008

A Plant City home was used to grow 73 marijuana plants, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies used a search warrant Monday afternoon at 1109 E. Knights Griffin Road and found marijuana buds drying in one room and 73 plants in another. The room with the plants also had grow lights, a water system and an air conditioning unit. ...more

December 9, 2008

"Let them eat cake" is how Tampa City Councilman John Dingfelder characterized his four colleagues' refusal to listen to hundreds of citizens on the TECO franchise agreement. Forty-two TECO customers pointed out numerous shortcomings in the franchise agreement, while Councilwoman Mary Mulhern held up a huge stack of letters pleading for a better deal. ...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

Firefighters and social workers scrambled today to relocate the last occupants of a hotel where the electricity was turned off because of an unpaid bill of $45,000. The power at the JMS Hotel, 4601 34th St. S., was turned off a week ago today, said Lt. Joel Granata, spokesman for St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue. ...more

December 3, 2008

County commissioners today were dumping on trash haulers for dragging their feet on changes to the way they operate Pasco officials first suggested during a workshop in February. ...more

December 2, 2008

Customers of Florida Power & Light, the state's largest electric utility, will pay slightly less for electricity in 2009 because of the lower cost of coal and natural gas, which are used to generate power. ...more

December 2, 2008