About the only thing missing will be elephants. A circus theme is planned for the city's Halloween Fall Festival, beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Temple Terrace Family Recreation Center. ...more

October 21, 2009

Jayne Appel had a career-high 46 points and 16 rebounds in the third-highest scoring performance in NCAA Tournament history, overwhelming Iowa State's helpless defense and securing Stanford's second straight Final Four appearance with a 74-53 victory in the Berkeley Region final on Monday night. ...more

March 31, 2009

What's fair is fair. That is the opinion of former city council candidate David Penoyer, who said he plans to file suit against the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections office after learning Friday that 440 ballots from precincts 626 and 651 went uncounted in the Nov. 4 election. ...more

January 20, 2009

A small fire in an apartment at the Buena Vista apartment complex in Seminole this morning has been tracked to a bathroom fan, so the cause has been deemed electrical in nature, Seminole fire officials say. ...more

December 9, 2008

SEMINOLE Three people were taken to the hospital this morning after a minivan collided with a school bus that was not carrying students, officials said. The minivan's driver was taken to Bayfront Medical Center, and one of the children in the vehicle was taken to All Children's Hospital, said Alison Shanabrook, spokeswoman for Seminole Fire Rescue. Two other children in the minivan were examined but not transported to the hospital. ...more

December 9, 2008

A Pinellas County school bus rear-ended a pickup truck towing a trailer this morning, injuring the two people in the truck and slightly injuring a student. ...more

December 8, 2008

A review this week of 57 regional offices of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has turned up nearly 500 benefit claim records that were set to be destroyed, agency officials said Friday. ...more

October 25, 2008

DUNEDIN -- The more things change, the more they remain the same. In the middle of the last century, a building with large glass bay doors at the corner of what is now Main Street and S.R. 580 housed a gas station. ...more

August 2, 2008

I don't know about you, but as a kid, my career aspirations varied from year to year. In fourth grade, I was dead set on becoming a teacher; by fifth, I'd shifted my focus to culinary school. With that much time on your side, the possibilities seem endless. ...more

June 8, 2008

Kwabena Sam-Brew, a 38-year-old immigrant from Ghana, doubted that Nana, his 5-year-old American-born daughter, would remember the rally that effectively crowned Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee on Tuesday night. But Sam-Brew said he would describe it to her: ...more

June 5, 2008