The Community Roundtable announced the winning floats that participated in Brandon's 51st annual Fourth of July Parade. The winners are: ...more

July 7, 2009

Alexis Marie Ashby wanted a teddy bear with flowers or a heart. The 9-year-old patient at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Tampa got a black bear with a red heart sweater and quickly named it Valentine. ...more

July 1, 2009

Tampa police are seeking the public's help identifying people responsible for a burglary and police pursuit. ...more

April 24, 2009

Kiss me Blarney Stone! Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day. ...more

March 17, 2009

The Gasparilla Pirate Invasion and Parade happens on Saturday and today's scouting raid won't be all that covert. Beginning at 11 a.m. gaudily dressed buccaneers will cruise downtown in large floats and pop off their guns to create a scene, all the while making an abduction run at Mayor Pam Iorio. ...more

February 3, 2009

Visitors this week probably have noticed that the locals get a little annoyed when someone refers to where we live as Tampa Bay. If you ask directions and don't keep moving, you'll get the lecture about Tampa being the city and the other one that body of water we pay exorbitant prices to live by. ...more

January 28, 2009

Gasparilla season continues at noon today with the annual bread and water battle between the U.S. Navy and boaters from the Davis Island Yacht Club. ...more

January 25, 2009

There's a new event this year in conjunction with the winter and spring "parade" season in the Tampa Bay area: the Inter-Krewe Council's Beads and Blessing Interfaith Parade Prayer Breakfast. ...more

January 13, 2009

Ed Hobin from the Southwest Florida Water Management District will speak about the drought, water conservation and restrictions on watering at Thursday's meeting of The Friends of Temple Terrace Parks and Recreation. ...more

January 7, 2009

In a case that resulted in a minor being charged with rape, a teenage girl leaving a book at the night depository at Bloomingdale Regional Public Library in April was attacked and left for dead. Now the Rough Riders, a Bay area civic organization, has chipped in to buy her a van outfitted to transport someone with medical needs. ...more

December 16, 2008