SOUTH SHORE BIRTHS Brandon Regional Hospital July 12: A daughter, Savannah Marie Dunn, to Crystal and K.C. Dunn of Riverview. July 24: A daughter, Natalie Brooke Mayhew, to Frances Yorkey and John Mayhew of Gibsonton. ...more

August 13, 2008

TAMPA After Ron Fernandez punched a person several times, knocking him unconscious, Fernandez dragged him about 100 yards down the road and left him in the roadway Saturday morning, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

July 26, 2008

TAMPA Under the influence of Oxycontin, Xanax, Soma and Oxycodone, a Riverview man drove to a Gibsonton Wal-Mart with his 5-year-old son Friday, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

July 26, 2008

Shortly after 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Jose Pizano slammed his 1985 white Buick into a TECO pole near the intersection of Gibsonton and Alavista drives, deputies say. But before they arrived, deputies say Pizano tried to climb out of the wrecked car — leaving behind his two children, 7 and 11. ...more

July 25, 2008

The National Weather Service office on 25th Avenue Southeast is South Shore's eyes and ears when it comes to hurricane preparation. ...more

July 16, 2008

Francisco Pecina was on the telephone Friday night with Joe Luis Castanada talking about a cocaine deal involving a couple hundred grams, police said. ...more

July 13, 2008

Francisco Pecina was on the phone last night with Joe Luis Castanada, according to police, talking about a cocaine deal involving a couple hundred grams. ...more

July 12, 2008

When the players in one of South Shore's biggest soccer leagues begin play for the fall season, they will do so in a new state-of-the-art facility. ...more

July 9, 2008

It used to be we would pull out of Tampa with a full tank and try to make it just across the Georgia border, where gas would be 20 or 30 cents cheaper. ...more

July 7, 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