Wimauma News

By Jonathan Abel and Saundra Amrhein , Times Staff Writers Posted: Jan 03, 2009 12:18 AM Santos Sosa returned home from a long day of landscaping last month ready to stretch his legs and fill his lungs with the ...

When Sarasota County deputy Stacey Eve learned about the "Hearts Without Borders" organization, she sent out a mass e-mail to her fellow law enforcement officers to ask if they would help with donations.

What she meant was that when something new came along, the old ways were quickly discounted, even things that had served people well for hundreds of years.

Residents in unincorporated Hillsborough County may dispose of their Christmas trees by placing them at the curbside for pick-up with their normal yard waste.

Used to be, only the occasional crow alighted atop row crops planted along the edges of Cockroach Bay.

When people think of Charles "Chuck" Wirick, they usually think of music. In fact, in some circles- like just about anywhere you go in South County- the name "Chuck Wirick" is almost synonymous with "musical ...

Tower Dairy on 78th Street near Brandon is one of only four left in Hillsborough.

The young men walked into the room in an orderly fashion, firmly shaking the hand of each guest at Youth Environmental Services.

Investigators from Hillsborough County Animal Services charged a man and a woman today with felony animal cruelty, saying they failed to seek help for an injured dog.

Traveling east on Highway 674 from Ruskin, thru Sun City Center, beyond Wimauma, past the twelve cows on the left, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, you will come to Booger Mana s Corner.

Warmed by hoodies, sweaters and jackets, more than 100 kindergartners sat on the curb singing Christmas carols with their teachers.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 3--APOLLO BEACH -- With so many in need of so much, a Christian initiative to fill food bank shelves could not have been timelier.

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Congregants from more than 14 Brandon and south Hillsborough County churches took the Gospel literally today, leaving services early to help provide for the less fortunate.

After months of postponements and meetings, the owners of a 537-acre sod farm will ask county commissioners in January to rezone land to make way for a Wimauma housing development.

Freeze shelters are open tonight, Tuesday, November 18, to anyone who is homeless or doesn't have adequate heat.

Taxpayers didn't purchase conservation lands all over Hillsborough County only to have developers cut through them to access subdivisions, South Shore residents said Monday.

You're invited to a holiday experience from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on A Friday, Nov. 14; and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov.

Nine-year-old Dayron Fernandez was like a kid with a new toy Monday, skipping from one playground apparatus to the next at Al Lopez Park.

An investigation of nearly two years paid off Friday when a woman authorities say killed two children in a hit-and-run crash was arrested in Tampa .