SEBRING — The Children's Advocacy Center could be doubling in size in the next 18 months. Jeff Roth, director of the center, announced plans for the 8,300-square-foot, $1.2 million expansion at Wednesday's Children Ser-vices Council meeting. The space, which would be added to the rear of the existing building, would allow the Department of Children and Families and Guardian Ad Litem to move their operations in the building. Roth said the centralization of services not only leads better communication between the agencies but also the economy of time due to central record keeping. ...more

May 29, 2008

The Tampa Fire Marshal's Office is investigating what it's calling a suspicious fire that destroyed a vacant, single-story house in Sulphur Springs on Monday. ...more

May 27, 2008

TAMPA - The Tampa Fire Marshal's Office is investigating what it's calling a suspicious fire that destroyed a vacant, single-story house in Sulphur Springs on Monday. ...more

May 26, 2008

The Tampa Bay History Center will make history when it opens in December, the first time the city has had such a spectacular free-standing structure for its artifacts and stories. ...more

May 24, 2008

The popular Iamgo Gallery on Douglas Avenue was the creative workplace for Marilyn Jones and 14 other artists. On Dec. 9, 2007, the gallery was gutted by a fire of suspicious origin. "I remember standing in front of it in total shock," Jones recalled. "You could see right through it. I went home and just cried." ...more

May 24, 2008

Tampa - Ikea, the casual home furnishings retailer, says it plans to begin construction in early June on a store in Tampa. ...more

May 22, 2008

Residents of the Westpark Preserve town home community in Westchase recently celebrated the opening of their new amenities center by holding an ice cream social. ...more

May 21, 2008

Mother's Day draws a crowd in the home of an Arkansas woman - she is pregnant with her 18th child. ...more

May 10, 2008

Ongoing debates over two slices of the neighborhood's waterfront could flare up again next week but probably won't get resolved. ...more

May 10, 2008

County commissioners voted unanimously earlier this week to approve an agreement that requires the developer of Cortez Commons to pay $522,580 to mitigate the cost of transportation impacts to his project at State Road 50 and Mariner Boulevard. ...more

May 10, 2008