Hillsborough News

Hillsborough County has a choice to make: It can continue to cut service and pretend that mass transit plays no role in the region's future.

An Urban Land Institute advisory panel has been visiting Hillsborough County this week and plans to make its recommendations Friday.

Mitt Romney speaks to supporters in front of Sawyer Bridge during a campaign event in Hillsborough, New Hampshire last week.

The $515,000 from the Penny for Pinellas money would be sent to Hillsborough County, which shares ownership of the bridge.

Before them was a stack of staffer emails complaining about low morale, dysfunctional leadership and the accuracy of contract documents.

Scores are out for the FCAT writing and local districts are trying to figure out what to make of the numbers.

Mitt Romney used an abandoned 19th century stone arch bridge restored with federal stimulus money to assail President Barack Obama 's record on spending, saying he swelled the U.S. debt for wasteful expenditures.

Renovation of Sawyer Bridge in Hillsborough, New Hampshire: Before on left and after on right Classic Mitt Romney: find something that on the surface sounds like a great political hit, but once you spend two seconds looking into it, you learn the emperor has no clothes.

Third-graders walk through a newly built classroom complex earlier this year at Carrollwood Day School.

Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is visiting New Hampshire again, this time appearing at what's become known as the "bridge to nowhere." The 19th century stone arch bridge in Hillsborough used to be called Sawyer Bridge.

2:50 a.m. - Joshua LaMoth, age 23, of Hampton, N.H., was arrested on Interstate 95 in North Hampton and charged with Possession of a Narcotic Drug and Operating after Suspension.

Last year the county deferred $124 in road work until 2014 because of falling revenues from the half-cent tax.

Hillsborough commissioners told their administrator Wednesday to come up with a strategy for killing fewer dogs and cats at the county's shelter.

Don't count school board member Stacy White as a fan of the teacher evaluation system in Hillsborough County public schools."I am not saying that we should not hold teachers accountable," White said today at a workshop on the topic.