Pedestrians soon will have an easier time walking the walk at a couple of Brandon intersections. ...more

August 6, 2008

It was an irresistible 400-pound temptation. "We had the idea of taking the bull at Bloomingdale for a long time. Everyone talked about doing it for years," said Frank "Tuna" Carotenuto, 16. ...more

August 2, 2008

How do you steal a 400-pound bronze statue of a bull? Assemble five teens with a tarp and a pickup truck. That's how the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office today described last week's theft of the statue — the mascot at Bloomingdale High School. ...more

August 1, 2008

At first, Heather Petrone thought the rumble was just more construction next door. "They are digging up the earth because a building is going up," says Petrone, 28, a Brandon High School graduate living in Los Angeles who was shooting another segment for her online astrology show, "Cosmosgal." "I thought it was just a Caterpillar digging a hole, but then it was like, 'Wait, this is getting worse. It's an earthquake.' " As she was reading a horoscope for Libra, the ground starts shaking. Watch her reaction. ...more

July 30, 2008

When James Leon Linville graduated from Brandon High School on June 2, he was not the first member of his family to launch out of the Brandon High School Eagles' Nest. He was the fourth. ...more

July 16, 2008

Becky Shultz, daughter of Roy and Nancy Shultz of Brandon, hit the big leagues when she became coordinator of special events for Major League Baseball in New York City last summer. It was "about five weeks before the San Francisco All-Star Game - talk about being thrown into the fire!" she said. ...more

July 12, 2008

Melanie Driscoll has only been in town since the end of June, and she won't make the payroll at Brandon High School until teachers officially report to work in August. ...more

July 12, 2008

Twenty cadets from the Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Brandon High School joined more than 200 cadets, 26 Army instructors and nine parent chaperones from 13 Hillsborough, Pinellas and Osceola county schools at the second annual JROTC Cadet Leadership Challenge Summer Camp June 10 through 14. ...more

July 9, 2008

The weak dollar, high cost of fuel and additional luggage fees may put a damper on summer vacation plans. ...more

June 27, 2008

The June 16 ceremony wasn't intended to be celebratory. Instead, it was a time for two families united by tragedy and loss to come together and reflect as the Brandon High School Alumni Association dedicated two memorial bricks along a memory walk in the courtyard in front of the high school on Victoria Street. ...more

June 21, 2008