Jared Howry couldn't wait to see the police go by. The 9-year-old third-grader at Woodlawn Elementary School in Zephyrhills and his cousin Mckenzie Kelly were among hundreds of people lining downtown Dade City on Monday for the 2010 Pasco County Fair parade. ...more

February 17, 2010

Regarding the mood of the country, the narrative is one of unrest from sea to shining sea. From eye-popping proposals on Capitol Hill whose enormity is matched only by their unpopularity to an upstart state senator claiming the seat of a Washington legend to a former vice presidential candidate alarming her foes by scribbling notes in her palm, all is controversy. ...more

February 10, 2010

"All I'm saying is you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip." Actually Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White, admitting only that he is a turnip, repeated the remark several times at the weekly meeting of the board of commissioners. ...more

January 24, 2010

Five-year-old Mariana Montanez and her 6-year-old sister Meredith Montanez arrived Tuesday afternoon to find a room full of Total Home Health employees tearfully waiting for them with a Christmas tree full of gifts. ...more

December 23, 2009

Toys donated by customers who filled a large gingerbread house at the Dollar General Store No. 1313, in Sebring, were delivered Thursday to the National Guard Armory at Avon Park for the families of the soldiers of Bravo Battery. ...more

December 19, 2009

This is dedicated to "all" veterans who have first hand seen and know the tremendous cost of freedom we have paid in all of our wars for the cost of freedom. Sixty-eight years ago on the morning of Dec. 7, the sky over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was filled with Japanese planes. When the last wave of attacking aircraft rejoined the Japanese fleet, there were 2,395 military, including 54 civilians killed and 1,158 wounded, including the military and 35 civilians. ...more

December 7, 2009

In countless classrooms in countless schools, students participated in countless lessons and projects this week in observance of Veterans Day. ...more

November 14, 2009

While the declaration of a nation was inked in parchment, it was the blood of the common man that ensured its delivery. ...more

November 11, 2009

Veterans Day 2009, "America's Shame," "No man left behind," shallow words indeed. ...more

October 29, 2009

More than 1,100 people attended the seventh annual Historic Hyde Park Home Tour on March 7. New this year were Model A Fords, courtesy of the New Florida Region Model A Restorers Club of Tampa. Parked outside each home, they represented the era in which the tour homes were built. ...more

March 18, 2009