The two-day tournament named in memory of Tony Ippolito, Brandon's first state champion wrestler, is set to begin Jan. 20 at 4 p.m. The Eagles under Head Coach Russ Cozart are competing for the team's 26th tournament crown.
Presented in slides is information voters need to know to participate in the 2012 Presidential Preference Primary in Hillsborough County.
Hillsborough sheriff's deputies get a break in the case that involved the Jan. 19 attempted robbery of prescription pain killers from a CVS pharmacy in Seffner.
From photography tours to exhibit, Cheryl Sackett talks about her life as a photographer, as an enriching hobby after her work as a nurse manager at the Brandon Surgery Center.
A CVS pharmacist in Seffner was handed a note demanding Oxycodone, Roxycodone or Opanam. The suspect, wearing a Western Kentucky University sweatshirt, threatened violence and fled on foot, without the pills.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reported on a missing teen, who has since returned to her home in Riverview, according to an updated report.
The Willis Peters Exceptional Student Education Center's prom and prom fundraiser are held annually at the Brandon Elks Lodge. The prom is a night to remember for students with limited intellectual functioning and other impairments.
The skate park's street-course design features a 9-foot-6-inch bowl, radius ramps, stairs, rails, ledges, banks and more, amounting to some 10,000 square feet at Providence Park East.
The Brandon Bears Youth Football and Cheerleading League celebrated the 2011 season. Some, including the group's athletic director and veteran varsity cheerleading coach, mark the end of their affiliations with the league, founded in 1988.
This latest photo quiz is of construction under way not far from the heart of Brandon. Post your answers and check back for a story that fleshes out the details.
The four-day festival held in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wraps up today, Jan. 16, with midway, vendors and a Freedom Walk to historic sites. Leadership awards were presented at a breakfast meeting, at the Plant City Red Rose Inn & Suites.
This gallery of photographs is part of Brandon's Patch's coverage of the Brandon Bears Youth Football and Cheerleading League awards banquet, held to celebrate the 2011 season, at HCC at The Regent. The league was founded in 1988.
The Tasting Tampa food blog has been organizing food truck rallies from Tampa to Pinellas County, down to Bradenton as well. The movement's first foray into the Brandon market was Jan. 14.
Boy scouts design, carve, paint, add weights and fine-tune their entries in the annual pinewood derby. A local display of the competition effort is under way today, Jan. 14, in the Westfield Brandon shopping mall.
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Arts Festival extends to Eastern Hillsborough County. Four-day calendar of events includes: Motown, hip-hop, carnival midway and vendors, walking tours, leadership breakfast, Freedom Walk and Freedom Parade.
Tasting Tampa’s drive to organize food-truck rallies hits the Greater Brandon area Jan. 14, with a focus on bringing “heightened awareness to small businesses” making “a living selling really good food."
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has planned heightened patrols and sobriety checkpoints to clear roadways of drunken drivers.
Becky Herndon Coupe issues this report from Portamento of Hope Cafe in Brandon, where a man she said suffered from a hit-and-run accident on Parsons Avenue was given much-needed aid.
John Lima of Brandon High is not alone. His dismissal as head football coach leaves one of seven such vacancies in the Hillsborough County School District. Also with openings: Blake, Chamberlain, Freedom, Lennard, Riverview and Strawberry Crest.
Bay News 9 posted video of an early morning Jan. 13 fire along Parsons Avenue and U.S. Highway 92.
