Lewis Elementary fifth-grader Joseph Skelton, 9, has earned a school award for surpassing the 1,250-point total in the Accelerated Reader program. He is the second student at Lewis to accomplish it. Joseph's sister, Michelle, was the first to reach that feat six years ago. She is a student at Williams I.B. Middle Magnet School. Their parents are William and Nadine Skelton. ...more

April 14, 2010

Lewis Elementary fifth-grader Joseph Skelton, 9, has earned a school award for surpassing the 1,250-point total in the Accelerated Reader program. He is the second student at Lewis to accomplish it. Joseph's sister, Michelle, was the first to reach that feat six years ago. She is a student at Willia ...more

April 12, 2010

The Zephyrhills City Council is expected to make it official today by voting to reject a DOT plan that would make Gall Boulevard a one-way street. ...more

November 9, 2009

The city council is expected to make it official Monday by voting to reject a Florida Department of Transportation plan that would make Gall Boulevard a one-way street. ...more

November 7, 2009

After more than a year of negotiating with the Florida Department of Transportation about the future of Gall Boulevard, city leaders are prepared to reject the $70 million road project. ...more

October 28, 2009

With Hillsborough and Pinellas counties reporting pedestrian fatality rates higher than the national average, the Florida Department of Transportation today is launching a "Stop and Look" campaign for drivers and pedestrians. "The Stop and Look safety campaign will encourage pedestrians to be predictable to motorists and for motorists to drive alert and share the road," department District 7 Secretary of Transportation Don Skelton said in a news release. ...more

August 20, 2009

The West Florida Young Guns U9 baseball team proved itself to be not simply the state's greatest, but the best in all the land. ...more

July 18, 2009

Michelle Skelton, a seventh-grader at William IB Middle School, earned first place in botany in the junior division of the 29th annual Hillsborough County Science Fair. ...more

April 8, 2009

New York City's Hell's Kitchen never sleeps. John Masterson talked about walking around that gritty-turned-gentrified community on the west side of Manhattan in the wee hours of the morning and seeing dancers go through their routines and hearing piano players pound out music for them. ...more

March 13, 2009

Summertree residents complain it's like talking to a brick wall. They say state officials have refused to correct a problem with the subdivision's barrier wall dating from the widening of S.R. 52 several years ago. ...more

February 18, 2009