The man who oversees safety issues for Hillsborough County public schools cringes at the thought of heavy dirt trucks mixing with traffic heading to and from three public schools on Lutz-Lake Fern Road. ...more

February 2, 2008

The man who oversees safety issues for Hillsborough County public schools cringes at the thought of heavy dirt trucks mixing with traffic heading to and from three public schools on Lutz-Lake Fern Road. ...more

February 2, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A 29-year-old man who died Sunday when he was thrown from a sport utility vehicle on a Sunshine Skyway access road has been identified as Charles R. Price Jr. of Bradenton. ...more

January 21, 2008

A sport utility vehicle slid off an access road near the north fishing pier by the Sunshine Skyway on Sunday morning, killing the 29-year-old man driving and injuring his 6-year-old passenger, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

January 21, 2008

SEBRING — Some Highlands County citizens are calling the tentative plan to re-open popular Lake Denton illegal. Others are calling it ridiculous. One who is doing both is Ken Melvin, one of the seven members of the special Lake Denton Citizens Advisory Committee. On Jan. 2, the Highlands County commissioners are scheduled to at least discuss, and possibly vote on, the committee's controversial, four-point recommendation to re-open this closed public lake. "I think it's illegal," Melvin said about the committee's recommendation to severely restrict public access and charge weekend "user's fees" of $25 per day to scuba divers, boaters, fishermen, swimmers and sunbathers. "I'm going to say that to the commissioners on Wednesday," Melvin said. He was sick for several months and missed the last two advisory committee meetings. ...more

December 29, 2007

A 1,000-plus-acre tract of environmentally sensitive land that's been on Hillsborough County's wish list for more than a decade could be in the public domain by year's end. ...more

November 27, 2007