The developer of a proposed subdivision off Turtle Drive has dropped a request to allow access to six homes through the Garden Grove neighborhood. ...more

June 7, 2008

WEEKI WACHEE - The photographer eyed the tail. She looked worried as I held it up to gauge … well, whatever qualities one should look for — in a fin. "That's a small tail," Julie Busch said, glancing without subtlety at the girth of my own, real tail — wider than the average mermaid. ...more

May 11, 2008

The photographer eyed the tail. She looked worried as I held it up to gauge ... well, whatever qualities one should look for - in a fin. ...more

May 11, 2008

Re: Controlled burns and wild pigs. Mr. Quehl must be new to Florida since he doesn't know what a "controlled burn" is and how it will benefit him in the future. He certainly needs to contact the phone number the editor provided him to gain this knowledge, along with the reason why the helicopters dropped water at the end of the day. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies have arrested a man found with a suitcase full of property taken during a burglary today, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

December 11, 2007

CLEARWATER BEACH - Surrounded by dozens of beachgoers, a 120-pound loggerhead sea turtle nicknamed Charlie Brown returned to the Gulf of Mexico this morning after a trip in the back of a pickup from Clearwater Marine Aquarium. The rehabilitated turtle, whose age and sex were not known, was found four months ago near Honeymoon Island in an emaciated condition and with a serious infection. ...more

October 17, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - It may have looked like a turtle in the middle of the road, but it actually was a bag of cash that had fallen off an armored truck, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

October 4, 2007