Seminole News

Florida Highway Patrol Director, Col. John Czernis, announced on Thursday, that Capt.

Alzheimer's Association benefit pancake breakfast SEMINOLE - A pancake breakfast that will benefit the Alzheimer's Association is planned Saturday, July 11, 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the third-floor dining room of Freedom Square, 10801 Johnson Blvd.

Councilors agree almost unanimously that Seminole's proposed budget for 2009-10 needs little, if any adjustments.

Forty years after the open-classroom craze swept through Seminole County, the last of 14 oddly designed schools built for the fad are about to be bulldozed.

Despite concerns, the City Council voted June 23 to pass on second reading a pair of ordinances that relate to parking on public streets and private property.

When U.S. Marine Sgt. Everett Dickson pulled into the driveway of his family's Seminole home on June 24, he was greeted by a colorful banner above the garage door welcoming him home.

Residents will continue to see the same services at no additional cost under terms of the city's proposed 2009-10 budget.

Pinellas County deputies are investigating a pedestrian accident that left a man seriously injured.

Authorities are investigating a mother after her child was found wandering alone.

Pinellas deputies are trying to find the family of a 3- or 4-year-old boy who inexplicably turned up at a Seminole house this morning.

Jon Novotny, 61, of Pinellas Park, is one of three local men who responded to an ad by My Career Corp., paid $75 and have had no job leads.

Richmond County Superintendent Dana Bedden has been criticized for being an outsider, someone who doesn't understand the issues facing the inner-city school system of 32,000 children.

A line of potent thunderstorms surged through Pinellas County late Tuesday, kicking off a spectacular lightning show, knocking out power to thousands of residents and ravaging a mobile home park.

Pinellas County Schools maintained its previous year status with an average grade of B in the annual state school grades by the Florida Department of Education, which were released last week.

Chris Jelenc, 16, of Seminole, from left, Chris Alfano, Kevin Dabydeen, standing, and Dirk Griewahn, 15, of Largo, are among the 11 to 18 students on the project on any given day.

They have the 417 and will soon have the Wekiva Parkway, but Seminole County has no say on the Expressway Authority's Board.

Calling county expressway authorities "little fiefdoms," Seminole County Commission Chairman Bob Dallari is pushing to create a regional agency that would oversee toll roads in Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake counties.

Police nabbed a suspected bank robber after two different witnesses reported seeing him drunk and covered in red dye Thursday.

Hours after a Seminole bank was robbed, a drunken man with red dye on his body was arrested and charged with bank robbery, Pinellas County deputies say.

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives are seeking the man who robbed a Seminole bank this afternoon.