A federal agency has cited the owner of an ammonia pipeline that ruptured last year for inadequate inspections and poor communication with county emergency responders. ...more

July 9, 2008

Dan Solano is old Florida to the core. "I'm thirteenth generation," he said. "My ancestors ... came to St. Augustine with Pedro Menendez in 1565." Pedro Menendez de Aviles was a Spanish seaman who founded St. Augustine. ...more

July 9, 2008

The place was never much, although you wonder how many thousands of people must have said something as they drove by the old fish camp through the years and wondered if there really were a giant inside. ...more

July 2, 2008

BOYETTE - Local and state firefighters continued today to monitor a brush fire near the Alafia River Park that had burned about 500 acres since Saturday night. ...more

June 29, 2008

RIVERVIEW - Mosaic Fertilizer announced today that it has purchased the historic Giant's Camp in Riverview, a once-thriving down-home restaurant and bait shop run by a man known on the carnival sideshow circuit as The Giant. ...more

June 27, 2008

A rural haven where troubled teen girls learn to turn their lives around in a Christian atmosphere recently celebrated its 35th anniversary. ...more

June 21, 2008

When Wimauma Elementary improved its school grade from a C to an A two years ago, a lot of the credit went to the school's third-graders. ...more

June 7, 2008

Jennifer Closshey, one of two Plant City residents on the Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board, has been elected its secretary. ...more

June 4, 2008

Residents creating a new look for downtown Riverview worry that a county planning rule could allow high-density commercial development to creep into their residential neighborhoods. ...more

May 21, 2008

Residents creating a new look for downtown Riverview worry that a county planning rule could allow high-density commercial development to creep into their residential neighborhoods. ...more

May 21, 2008