A meeting on Plant High expansion Tuesday showed it's proving unpopular among neighbors, who fear construction spillover in surrounding Palma Ceia, and Plant parents, who – despite assurances from officials – say more class space means more students. ...more

October 28, 2009

Seven lumbering elephants - four of them newcomers - are the star attractions in the San Diego Zoo's biggest, most costly expansion in its 90-plus years. ...more

June 19, 2009

Bay Hill was so penal Friday that most players figured it would be difficult for anyone to shoot a low number and separate themselves from the pack. Sean O'Hair apparently didn't get the memo. ...more

March 28, 2009

Watching baseball is easy. Playing and understanding the rules behind it is a whole different ballgame. ...more

February 21, 2009

A 55-year-old man died early Sunday morning after he struck a car while driving his motorcycle the wrong direction on Little Road in Pasco County late Saturday night. The Florida Highway Patrol said Thomas McCormick of New Port Richey was driving his 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle south in the northbound lane of Little Road near Bourbon Street and collided head-on with a 1996 Chevrolet about 11:10 p.m. Saturday. ...more

February 10, 2009

A 55-year-old man is in critical condition after he struck a car while driving his motorcycle the wrong direction on Little Road in Pasco County late Saturday. ...more

February 8, 2009

Would you join me in praying for our president? Like many of you I didn't vote for him, but none the less he is our president. He truly does have a momentous task before him and he needs our support and wisdom only God can give. He has offered a couple of things that are promising, saying that any treaty between Israel and Palestine for peace would have to stop the rockets aimed at Israel and the flow of underground arms from other countries. As I understand it, the arms are coming from Egypt through underground tunnels. So, it is easy to see, Israel is not only at war with Palestine but also with others who are contributing to the effort. We may not want to admit it but this is an underhanded, unfair conflict which is apt to get worse before it gets better. ...more

February 6, 2009

Drivers heading southbound on Interstate 275 near 38th Avenue North in St. Petersburg will need to use caution this morning. ...more

January 13, 2009

Ernest and Rose Flanagan always left home at 5 a.m. when they traveled, and they apparently held to that routine Christmas morning as they started on a two-day journey to visit a relative in Ohio. ...more

December 27, 2008

John Chase of Palm Harbor says Joan Atkins, in her letter to the editor, overstates magnitude of the shift to the political left Barack Obama will produce. ...more

December 27, 2008