Lithia News

It's an oddly-shaped, 19-acre piece of property, carved out of long-ago horse trails that now serve as our suburban roads.

Sweltering temperatures didn't stop thousands from turning out today for Brandon's annual salute to Uncle Sam.

A federal judge in Tampa, Fla., has permanently barred eight men including five tax preparers and two Certified Public Accountants from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme involving bogus income tax credits.

The Tampa Bay area of Florida offers some of the best biking trails available. If it's your first time biking in this area during the summer months, make sure you take along enough water to stay hydrated, and also insect repellent as the mosquito's can be fierce! The first trail you might like to try is one located in the Alafia River State Park.

Oscar Kunze has offered a helping hand to local residents for as long as anyone in this small community can remember.

Canoes and kayaks from the Little Manatee Canoe Outpost line the shore of a beach at the Little Manatee State Recreation Area near the Manatee County line on U.S. 301 near Wimauma.

FishHawk Ranch invites the community to a free summer concert series every Friday night through Aug.

After a road rage incident Friday afternoon, a black man committed a hate crime against a white woman, calling her a "white cracker" and throwing a bottle through her rear window, Hillsborough County deputies say.

Published: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10:45 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10:45 a.m. LITHIA Authorities say a single lightning strike likely killed 15 head of cattle at a Tampa-area ranch.

Although lightning strikes damaged homes and trees Wednesday night in east Hillsborough County, no one was injured.

On Saturday, May 30, Farrier Corral and Equine Corral had the honor of hosting Delta Mustad Hoofcare Center's Clinician, Alexi Gutierrez.

Police have spent four days searching a Lithia landfill for forensic evidence into a Tampa man's disappearance.

Tampa Police are searching the Hillsborough County Landfill in Lithia for any sign of 20-year-old Ryan Jerard Darkins.

Tampa Bay Water's large reservoir near Lithia southeast of Tampa is almost empty.

Six local Beef O'Brady's restaurants will donate 10 percent of their sales on Monday to the family of a young woman who was attacked outside the Bloomingdale Regional Library nearly a year ago.

Balm Wimauma Road at State Road 672 in Balm, northbound lane closed intermittently from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. through today for intersection reconfiguration.

Shannon Leigh Hunter became the bride of Travis Jacob Green Oct. 18 in a sunset garden ceremony at the Palmetto Club performed by the Rev.

The Board of County Commissioners has unanimously quashed the latest assault on rural Keystone and preserved the area's future growth plan, at least for one more year.

Brad Diamond is happiest when he turns his commute between Lithia and the University of South Florida from a 45-minute trip into a 90-minute adventure.

It's not clear that energy tax credits do anything useful in the energy world, but the Justice Department says they sure promote economic activity : The United States has sued four Certified Public Accounts , 27 tax preparers and one other individual, seeking to bar them from promoting an alleged tax scam involving bogus income tax credits claimed ...