After hours of testimony from a more-than-packed room, the State Land Board did an about-face, voting to see if it can reverse its previous approval of leases on state-owned land for gravel mining at the base of Casper Mountain.
It's been just a year and a half since the Historic Hacienda Hotel reopened in New Port Richey. The Hacienda is one of Tampa Bay's iconic original pink hotels. It sat empty for years.
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History will be highlighting artists who made a lasting impact on comic books in its new exhibit "Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandos: The Lost Worlds of Women Comic Artists," which opens Friday the 13th and runs through Jan. 21.