The Blueberry Festival Pageant sign ups will be from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, and Saturday, Feb. 21, at Keel and Curley Winery, 5210 Thonotosassa Road. Girls 2 to 19 and boys 2 to 6 can register. Each age division will have only 20 contestants so don’t delay with sign ups. Paperwork […]
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Double homicide victims identified
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a double homicide that occurred at 3802 East Highway 60 in Plant City. Police responded at about 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, to a 911 call that shots had been fired at an area between Twilight Zone Lounge and a residential building with month-to-month leasing. Upon arrival, units confirmed that two victims were dead.a […]
Continue ReadingAnimal cruelty leads to P.C. man’s arrest
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Antonio Casmento, of Plant City, on charges of animal cruelty, after finding a neglected and injured water buffalo in his possession. At about 10:15 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16, agriculture detectives from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office were called to the 2900 block of S. Frontage Road in Plant City, to […]
Continue ReadingFatal crash occurs at I-4, Alexander interchange
A Saturn collided with a pick up truck hauling a trailer at the Interstate 4 interchange on Alexander Street at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 16. The Saturn, driven by Eric McClellan, 23, of Haines City, was traveling south on Alexander Street and took an eastbound turn toward the I-4 entrance ramp on a green light. He collided […]
Continue ReadingInsurance agent facing more grand theft charges
By Tampa Bay Times Staff A Plant City insurance agent who was twice arrested last year on charges that she stole thousands of dollars from her clients is facing additional charges after more people claimed she took their money. Investigators with the state Division of Insurance Fraud have alleged that Paula Albertson, 53, stole more […]
Continue ReadingMIA WWII pilot identified
Past strawberry fields and citrus groves, past pasture fences and dirt roads, two representatives from the United States Army drove to the Lithia home of Sandy Shirley on a sunny January afternoon. Twelve miles outside of Plant City, First Sgt. Rudolph Neal and Jeannette Bogle had traveled even further from Miami and Kentucky. They were […]
Continue ReadingWoman still homeless after SUV crashes into house
After an SUV crashed into Dorothy Ussery’s Dover home on Christmas morning, the 83-year-old has been left homeless. A recent offer from the driver’s insurance company only covered $10,000 of the expenses. The family has set up a Go Fund Me account to help rebuild her home and is still taking donations. Shortly before 3 […]
Continue ReadingWells Memorial offers seminars
Wells Memorial and Event Center will be offering five seminars within the next month to teach people in the community about how to prepare for the death of a family member, or how to prepare their families for their own deaths. The complimentary seminars will be nearly identical, except their locations and the type of […]
Continue ReadingPlant City woman dies at age 109
Betty Everidge, a longtime member of the Plant City community, died Friday, Jan. 2, just a month before she would have turned 110. Mrs. Everidge was born in Carrolton, Georgia, in 1905. When she was 12, boll weevils destroyed her family’s cotton farm, so they took a train to Florida and became permanent residents. online […]
Continue ReadingLocal team needs help floating to Polar Plunge
Preteen Megan Flowers still gets chills when she thinks about the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics. Flowers competed last year, braving the 60-degree water at Aquatica in Orlando for her Plant City-based team Warriors at Heart. This year she will compete again. But, first she and her team have to raise $500 before Feb. 1. […]
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