A design review application before the Community Redevelopment Agency from the city's utilities department to complete construction of a pole barn at 454 N. Franklin St. may have opened up a can of worms. ...more

October 28, 2009

A few clouds drifted across the sky, but the sun was shining Saturday afternoon when a series of lightning strikes hit a Fourth of July church picnic where 100 parishioners gathered in Lakeland, killing one person. ...more

July 4, 2009

A fire at a mobile home park north of Thonotosassa has been extinguished, but not before burning about 3 acres, an unoccupied mobile home and a pole barn, Hillsborough County firefighters say. ...more

February 24, 2009

With the deed to the property in hand, the all-volunteer board of directors of the Brandon Community Advantage Center is moving ahead with final engineering and design plans for the first phase of the community's new civic center. ...more

November 5, 2008

Taxpayer-backed Lowry Park Zoo has built two barns at zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal attraction in Polk County. ...more

September 10, 2008

TAMPA - Taxpayer-backed Lowry Park Zoo has built two barns at zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal attraction in Polk County. ...more

September 9, 2008

Two French exchange students from the international student exchange program Echanges Culturels Internationaux, Sandy Promonet, 15, and Lauren Seynaeve, 14, found common ground recently with local girls who like to twirl batons. ...more

August 13, 2008

Cathleen Coluzzi was sitting in an easy chair, folding laundry before going to bed when two men kicked down the door to her studio apartment in a pole barn about 2 a.m. Monday. ...more

June 24, 2008

HUDSON - Cathleen Coluzzi was folding laundry and preparing to go to bed when two men kicked down the door to her studio apartment in a pole barn about 2 this morning. ...more

June 23, 2008

A two-alarm fire was under control in less than hour today and did not threaten a nearby Eagle Lake elementary school, Polk County Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

May 5, 2008