Are the residents of the Brooksville Housing Authority (BHA) being served? If they are being served, are they getting the best value for the dollars spent? ...more

December 20, 2007

A former University of Florida football standout and a former Hillsborough County sheriff's corporal were among 13 people indicted Wednesday in the theft of funding meant to help house Tampa's most needy residents. ...more

December 13, 2007

Federal indictments against three former Tampa Housing Authority employees lay out a detailed and documented schedule by which the three conspired with 10 other people to allegedly steal more than $125,000 in rent money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...more

December 13, 2007

TAMPA - Three former Tampa Housing Authority employees were charged today in a federal indictment with embezzling more than $125,000 in federal money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...more

December 12, 2007

AVON PARK — Three weeks after the Boys and Girls Club's Avon Park branch opened at Memorial Field, the club is still getting a second portable ready, and is working on a deck to connect its two trailers. But membership has already shot up well beyond what Executive Director Wally Randall predicted. The branch's new location has 74 members, and 65 children can be found either studying or screaming, racing and playing around the two portables on any given weekday after school. That's slightly more than the number of kids at the club's main branch in Sebring. "We were expecting 40. On the first day, close to 60 showed up," Randall said. ...more

December 8, 2007

Mayor David Pugh, Jr. has been tapped by his fellow council members to serve another term with the mostly ceremonial title before his name. ...more

December 4, 2007

Mayor David Pugh has asked four housing board members to resign and wants their temporary replacements to recommend whether the city should cut ties with the authority. ...more

November 29, 2007

Brooksville Housing Authority director Ronnie McLean, whose suspended driver's license and ensuing explanation prompted some housing board members to question whether he was right for the job, endured a scare Monday when he thought his license had once again been suspended. ...more

November 27, 2007

The nearly 500 families of Central Park Village are gone. The public housing apartments they lived in have been demolished. ...more

November 14, 2007

At 91, Olivia Pitts Jackson was the boarding home's oldest resident. She arrived Feb. 27. That day, the Tampa Housing Authority evicted her and her husband from public housing. John Jackson, 47 - "God told us to marry," she says - hadn't responded to the agency's annual review to see whether they still qualified for public housing. So they had to go. ...more

November 2, 2007