Funeral services have been set for a Lakeland grade school teacher with local ties who authorities say was the victim of a murder-suicide. ...more

August 25, 2008

Vernon Harkey knew his church would have to fork over more money for the fire assessment next year. ...more

August 25, 2008

Friday morning, the crowd started trickling into the food pantry at Dayspring Presbyterian Church in Spring Hill. ...more

August 24, 2008

Daisy has a new friend. Thanks to 5-year-old Allison "Allie" Blain of Temple Terrace, All Children's Specialty Care Clinic on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard recently welcomed a new teaching dummy named Donald. He now shares center stage at the facility with Daisy, a fellow instructional puppet and bosom buddy with Allie and many of its other young patients. ...more

August 20, 2008

Pool checkers is a winner for Arthur "Moochie" McCarr. The 65-year-old East Tampa resident is national master's champion after besting a 10-player field in Chicago at the recent 42nd annual American Pool Checkers Association tournament. ...more

August 16, 2008

It might not exactly qualify as a miracle, but for its founders, the results of the first year weren't far from one. ...more

August 13, 2008

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Plant City native has written a lengthy article for The New Yorker magazine on the Florida Strawberry Festival queen's pageant. Headlined "The Strawberry Girls," the article by Anne Hull hit the newsstands Monday. ...more

August 7, 2008

Elizabeth Bateman "Betty" Chambers was remembered for her sincerity, friendliness and boundless energy by about 800 friends and family members who attended a service in her honor at First Baptist Church of Plant City. ...more

July 30, 2008

An underused church will get re-invented tomorrow when it will be dedicated as Covenant House Bridge to Independence, a Christ-centered re-entry and recovery ministry and residency program for men wanting to break the chains of addiction, crime and incarceration. ...more

July 26, 2008

Betty Chambers, an iconic symbol and community leader, died Sunday at her home after a three-month battle with lung cancer. She was 86. ...more

July 23, 2008