Brooksville News

Calling the Little Rock Cannery Hernando's "golden egg," a Brooksville businessman is working with the county to develop a marketing plan for the facility off Citrus Way.

One of the revenue-generating red-light cameras is at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Broad Street in Brooksville.

Having watched her students at Eastside Elementary School perform poorly on Florida's standardized reading tests, principal Beverly Chapin knew the kids needed some help.

Even I thought I might be blowing smoke last year when I wrote that Dr. Paul Farmer could someday win a Nobel Peace Prize.

The Hernando County Public Works Department announced Friday that Barnett Road has been temporarily and partially closed due to flooding.

Brenda Gause walked out to her pasture Wednesday night and saw a horse that didn't belong to her.

Going green in Brooksville will require some blue. Beginning Sept. 2, residents will have curbside service to pick up their recyclables for the first time.

Hernando County Sheriff's deputies say a Lowe's zone manager stole $70,000 from the Brooksville store over two years.

Kathleen Nani loves a challenge. She is the owner and primary design consultant of Weeki Wachee's Gionani Interiors.

Hernando County Public Library System will offer the following summer programs for boys and girls ages 5-12: "Rumpelstiltskin" will be presented at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, June 30, at the Play'n Around Theatre at West Hernando Branch Library, 6335 Blackbird Ave., off State Road 50, near Weeki Wachee; and at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, July 8, at the East ...

Authorities are asking for the public's help finding an absconded Jacksonsville sex offender believed to be in Brooksville.

In the end, there were no arrests. There was some finger-pointing and excited shouting, but that was the limit of the drama at a protest Wednesday outside U.S. Rep.

And in underwear news, Brooksville, Fla., officials have mandated that all city employees wear drawers to work.

Tourist Development Council sets meeting Hernando County Tourist Development Council will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Best Western I-75, 30305 Cortez Blvd., east of Brooksville.

To cut down on crime, South Brooksville residents have asked the county for months to install street lighting along Martin Luther King Jr.

A Saturday arrest on a charge of sexual battery marked Brooksville resident Frank Malicoate's 18th arrest.

Family files suit over death in head-on collision The relatives of a Brooksville woman who died from injuries sustained in a July 2008 head-on collision filed a civil lawsuit Friday.

The county Utilities Department will make water line improvements at the Cedar Lane Water Plant between 11 tonight and 5 a.m. Tuesday.

A Brooksville man was charged with sexual battery on a 37-year-old woman after he admitted to deputies he had consumed a lot of alcoholic beverages and smoked crack cocaine.

About 3 a.m. Friday, a 2005 Ford Escape driven by Verena Wartmann, 49, of Greenwood, Ind., was heading south when it swerved across the lanes and hit the guardrail, the FHP said.