Play to win, but have fun doing it. That's how Rex "Scooter" Ballenger Jr., East Bay High's 5-foot-9-inch quarterback, lived life on the field and off, said his coach, teammates and father. Each spoke today at the school about how they are leaning on each other and trying to find something positive in the young man's death. ...more

May 20, 2008

East Bay High School quarterback Rex Ballenger died Monday at Tampa General Hospital after he was injured in a car crash over the weekend. ...more

May 20, 2008

TAMPA - East Bay High School quarterback Rex Ballenger died Monday at Tampa General Hospital after he was seriously injured in a car crash over the weekend, according to the school's athletic director. ...more

May 19, 2008

The morning commute may get a little easier for motorists trying to get on Interstate 75 from Big Bend Road as construction crews prepare to install a traffic signal on the east side of the interstate overpass. ...more

February 23, 2008

The morning commute may get a little easier for motorists trying to get on Interstate 75 from Big Bend Road, as construction crews prepare to install a new traffic signal on the east side of the interstate overpass. ...more

February 18, 2008

First, their own neighborhood supermarkets and restaurants, and now this: a YMCA program in Summerfield's back yard. ...more

February 16, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA More Local Foreclosures Hillsborough County's foreclosure spike is continuing into 2008, says a firm that collects data on the litigation that starts the foreclosure process. Default Research of Mount Pleasant, Pa., tracked 919 Hillsborough lis pendens court petitions in January, up 9.7 percent from 838 cases in December. The firm does not collect data on other area counties. The news comes after another firm listed Florida as second in the nation for its 2007 foreclosure rate of more than 2 percent. ...more

February 15, 2008

So you're thinking about buying a home and don't know where to begin your search? Lennar officials say its new community in Riverview, Shady Creek, is the perfect place to start. ...more

February 10, 2008

Two years of construction at U.S. 301 and Big Bend Road are nearing an end, but not without hiccups. ...more

February 6, 2008

The South Hillsborough County population boom has caught the attention of the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, which operates YMCA facilities in Hillsborough and Pasco counties. ...more

January 30, 2008