A group of residents plans to protest in front of Long Middle School on Monday to show their opposition to a cell tower being erected at the school. ...more

October 31, 2009

I agree with Mr. Turberville. My companion of almost 21 years has two rental places that he can't rent because of two neighbors. They each have a lot of dogs in cages and the smell will knock you out. Plus the one neighbor also does mechanic work on other people's cars on our property, it is zoned residential. ...more

October 22, 2009

Gulf to Bay Boulevard at Cross Boulevard in Clearwater is back open after a collision between a vehicle and a truck carrying pesticide shut down westbound traffic for a few hours, said public safety spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts. ...more

May 7, 2009

Taking Fido to the vet for routine shots can cost upward of $100. With more people out of work and struggling to pay for their own health care, getting required vaccines for the family dog or cat is becoming less of a priority. ...more

March 24, 2009

Parents opposed to a cell phone tower at Cimino Elementary School are urging likeminded parents to attend a March 16 Hillsborough County zoning hearing in a last-ditch effort to stop the tower from being erected. ...more

March 4, 2009

Hoping to garner more community support for their cause, parents opposed to placing a cell phone tower at Cimino Elementary School and other public schools will host a meeting at 6:30 tonight at the Bloomingdale Regional Library. Meeting organizer Louise Bravo, the parent of a Cimino Elementary student, said a groundswell of protest is the only way to stop Collier Enterprises II from placing the 100-foot cell tower at the school, at 4329 Culbreath Road, following Principal Deborah Talley's Feb. 10 decision to recommend putting up the cell tower. Cimino PTA President Pearl Chiarenza said all the studies she has seen have been inconclusive, and she is in favor of constructing the tower. ...more

February 24, 2009

Utah-based Nestlé Prepared Foods Co. is recalling three types of Lean Cuisine frozen chicken meals that may contain small bits of hard plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. ...more

November 18, 2008

Eight members of a crime ring making millions through the sale of contraband shrimp and scallops were arrested Thursday, including six Hernando County residents. ...more

November 14, 2008

Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers. ...more

October 22, 2008

Hillsborough County's transit agency is going to spend thousands of dollars to remove asbestos from its electric streetcars. ...more

October 12, 2008