People waving political signs outside Progress Village Park on Election Day said race fueled their fervor to support Barack Obama. But now, with the election frenzy behind them and the country's first black president poised to assume command in January, they want to focus on unity and change for people of all races. ...more

November 12, 2008

People waving political signs outside Progress Village Park on Election Day said race fueled their fervor to support Barack Obama. But now, with the election frenzy behind them and the country's first black president poised to assume command in January, they want to focus on unity and change for people of all races. ...more

November 7, 2008

Brandon area voters turned out in full force Tuesday morning, with lines at some precincts 200 and 300 deep by 9 a.m. The crowds thinned during the course of the day, and by 1 p.m. most polling places experienced the typical post-lunch lull. ...more

November 4, 2008

11: 25 a.m.: Marlise Tolbert-Jones usually likes to stay out of the limelight, but she is front and center among a crowd of Barack Obama supporters outside the polling place at Progress Village Park. ...more

November 4, 2008

Residents of Westchase are opening their wallets and cleaning their closets to help people in need, and they are asking others in the county to do the same. ...more

September 24, 2008

Residents of Westchase are opening their wallets and cleaning their closets to help people in need, and they are asking others in the county to do the same. ...more

September 24, 2008

A jury of four men and eight women in the first-degree murder trial of Joshua Rosa deliberated for a little more than three hours Friday night before announcing they could go no further. ...more

July 19, 2008

Joshua Rosa's defense at his murder trial rested late this morning without the defendant, a former youth minister at a Pentecostal church, taking the stand. Rosa is charged with strangling 13-year-old Stephen Tomlinson in the woods near a park in Logan Gate Village, near Citrus Park, on Dec. 8, 2005. ...more

July 18, 2008