Lacoochee News

It will not be Extreme Makeover Trilby/Lacoochee edition, but a just-adopted strategy to improve the twin hamlets in northeast Pasco provides a blueprint for what most likely will be methodical progress in the county's poorest region.

"He was a wonderful little boy. We're sad, and we're going to miss him a lot.'' Margie Polen , principal at Gulf Highlands Elementary School, speaking about a 6-year-old pupil, Bryce Atkeson, who died in a fire.

Pasco leaders have talked for years about how to improve life for the residents of Lacoochee, the county's poorest community.

Joseph Coleman is likely headed to prison for life. A jury today convicted the 56-year Lacoochee man of attempted second-degree murder and kidnapping in the 2006 shooting of his then-estranged wife, Sylvia Grant.

An attorney for Joseph Coleman, who is accused of attacking his wife with a gun and nearly killing her, argued Wednesday that detectives failed to investigate the case thoroughly and decided from the get-go that Coleman was guilty.

A 32-year-old man has been indicted on federal charges in a murder-for-hire scheme.

Last year, just outside the county's poorest community, a Dollar General opened its doors.

A Pasco County man who abducted and shot his estranged wife received 25 years in prison Monday, sparing him from a trial with blood-curdling 911 tapes and a possible life sentence.

Little Man Rayford is either at the bottom of Hunter's Lake or he swam to freedom.

Joe Elkins, right, rakes trimmings as Justin Kowal mows outside a house on Leaning Oak Drive in Port Richey last week.

The Houdini act began late Sunday as Amanda Driggers sat in the back of Cpl. Barry Arnew's patrol car.

LAND O' LAKES - Amanda Driggers performed a disappearing act that Houdini, or even David Blaine, could be proud of these days.

A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a Dade City man already in jail and charged with the June 12 murder of a Lacoochee man.

Katie Lail's phone kept ringing Thursday with calls from excited teachers who couldn't stop screaming.

Pasco sheriff's detectives have arrested a Dade City man in the murder of a Lacoochee man last week.

The death of a 48-year-old Lacoochee man found this morning in his mobile home has been ruled a homicide, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said.

A year ago at this time, Lacoochee Elementary principal Karen Marler was beside herself over the steep declines her students had made on the FCAT reading and math exams.

The post office here is more than just a place to mail packages and pick up stamps.