Apollo Beach News

Excitement was evident following the first annual Inaugural Awards Members Banquet Jan.

Apollo Beach, Florida -- Work is now resuming on a master-planned community in Apollo Beach that could include 38-hundred homes within the next 10 years.

The semiformal event, which was catered by South County Career Center Culinary Arts students, drew more than 200 guests.

Cousins Klarissa Solis, left, and Krystal Elizarraras, both of Ruskin, go through a stack of children's clothing donated by the community for the Firehouse Cultural Center fundraiser for Diego Duran.

Bulldozers have started pushing dirt again at Waterset, a huge development in southern Hillsborough County that ultimately could boast 6,700 homes.

The 20th Annual Apollo Beach Manatee Festival of the Arts showcases fine arts and fine crafts in a relaxed and comfortable setting.

Shoppers at the monthly SouthShore Market in Ruskin were greeted with blue skies, cool temperatures and a wide selection of vendors with products ranging from photography to farm fresh produce.

ABOVE: An artist's rendering shows the multipurpose facility Calvary Lutheran Church plans to build on 25 acres at State Road 674 and 15th Street Southeast in Ruskin.

When I first met Incognito Lounge owners Kevin and Kristina Knott, they were scurrying around getting their Apollo Beach restaurant ready to open.

She was attacked with a butcher knife and set on fire by her unhinged husband, an ex-NYPD detective, and now she hopes he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

A retired NYPD detective severely burned his estranged wife by dousing her with petrol and setting her on fire because she was divorcing him.

A Hillsborough County jury found 46-year-old Christopher Hanney guilty Thursday of attempted murder, aggravated battery and arson.

Christopher Hanney waited two years to tell a jury how he'd been wrongfully accused of setting his wife on fire.

So far this month, the weather has been all but typical. Given the nice, warm temperatures, I'm not so sure the fish know what season we're in.

For Audrey Mabrey, it was the end of her life as she knew it, when she says her estranged husband, Christopher Hanney, doused her in gasoline and threw a lit candle at her.

Attorneys in the Christopher Hanney trial wrapped up their opening statements quickly Tuesday morning.A Both sides took a total of 40 minutes.

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a man accused of setting his wife on fire and hitting her in the head with a hammer.

The sea cow, then 410 pounds and 6 feet 5 inches long, had frostbite on her tail and was taken to the Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton, where she gained weight and strength.

Long lines and chilly temperatures didn't deter area foodies who came out en masse to sample the fare of 15 food trucks gathered Saturday, Jan.