Hillsborough County News

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This year's VBS program at St. Andrew's United Methodist Church will be DoDad's Wild Bible Adventures, taking place from Monday, July 29-Friday, August 2. Returning from last summer are the coolest professors on the planet, Professor DoDad, Professor Bud, and Professor Lulu.

People who remember "the cars" marvel at the recollection, of a principal who was so beloved by two student bodies and sets of teachers and staff that they each raised funds to buy him a car before he drove off to other endeavors.

Two Seffner homes, next door to a property where a sinkhole opened in February and killed a man while he slept, are being demolished today.

Debris litters what remains of a classroom at Plaza Towers Elementary after it was destroyed by a tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., on Monday.

The two girls met playing high school basketball in a small community on the east coast of Florida and had a sexual relationship.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has lost 15 deputies in the line of duty since 1874.

It's not too late to register for summer camps at Hillsborough County parks. Online registration began May 6, and nearly 600 kids are already signed up to dig into summer at county parks.

Slashed tires, verbal threats and a stabbing preceded the death of Ervin Washington of Seffner, whose death came at the hands of his wife, Emon Tennille Kellar, according to a report from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Hillsborough County Commissioner Al Higginbotham said in an interview May 21 that he plans to meet with Bloomingdale residents concerned and opposed to big-box retail and apartment development on Bloomingdale Avenue because "they need somebody to come and listen." If concerned residents attend the June 10 meeting hoping to learn "how to kill the ... (more)

Connerton Elementary students don't have to end the school year wondering who will sit in the principal's office in August.

We all face challenges that can seem insurmountable. It's how we handle those challenges that defines us as people.

In the recent past, it would seem almost unthinkable that the Hillsborough County Commission would salute a group promoting the region to gay business owners and tourists.

An Armwood High School student is accused of stealing the identities of dozens of people in order to collect debit cards in their names.

Sounding suspiciously inclusive, Hillsborough County commissioners are talking about making it easier for a Hispanic person to have a seat on their board.

The much maligned Hillsborough Democratic Party is coming off one of its best performances in years.

Talk about doing more with less. The proposed fiscal year 2014 operating and capital budget for Hillsborough County's transit agency will come in nearly 27 percent lower than last year.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

A self-proclaimed "sovereign citizen" was arrested on school grounds in Plant City, after the suspect, Bruce Charmers Hicks, 46, strolled by Turkey Creek Middle School on May 16 with a "small firearm holstered on his left hip," according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Republicans on the Hillsborough County Commission have twice refused in the past two years to even discuss changing their district boundaries to make it easier for a Hispanic to win a seat.

The notice in the mail told Carmen Olmeda she could transfer her profoundly disabled daughter out of Orange County's F-rated Magnolia School.