Losses rock victorious teams [Times photo: Carrie Pratt] Middle schoolers right themselves after mothers of two cheerleaders die and the football coach's father suffers a massive stroke.

Sheriff's candidates tout their experience
The primary runoff will determine who faces incumbent Sheriff Lee Cannon in November.

Neighbors add plant to undesirables list
Residents fear an inferno at the liquid separation facility, but Buccaneer says the backup plant will pollute less than Florida Power.

Humor is winner in school election
Wesley Chapel's first graduating class campaigns to set enduring traditions for others -- one vote at a time.

Students' paper trail doesn't die easy death
To get from folder to fodder, a student's records must navigate a snarl of state regulations. Meanwhile, look in the old cheese freezer.

Cigar shop is reminder of early Florida
A Dade City man whose mother worked in the Tampa cigar factories brings the tradition back in a one-room shop in downtown Dade City.

Fundraising event to help Dade City woman
Anita Allison Walters, 38, lifelong resident of Dade City, was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1995.

Architect dies after being thrown from horse in fox hunt in Pasco
TAMPA -- Jan Abell, an architect who has long helped save historic homes and buildings, died Saturday morning while on a fox hunt near Dade City. She was 55.

Breast cancer education event set
The American Cancer Society in Pasco, Hernando and Citrus countries will conduct an education campaign, called Tell-A-Friend Tuesday, to get potentially lifesaving early detection information about breast cancer out to area women ages 40 and older.

Heroes and happenings
To chants of "Mario, Mario," Ridgewood's elusive Mario Policastri proved difficult for Zephyrhills to contain as a runner and a kick returner -- but Ram penalties and miscues did.

Farewell old stadium, old friend
MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee County Stadium is much older than its years, a rundown, dilapidated stench-filled rust-ridden ice box.