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City Council member Phil Abts is stuck with a $36,319 legal bill. Abts asked his fellow council members on Tuesday night to pick up the tab, arguing he spent the money defending himself on an ethics complaint that grew out of his duties as a city official.

In a two-day, street-level drug sweep, Pasco County deputies arrested 62 suspects on 170 charges, Sheriff Bob White announced today.

Pasco detectives are investigating the discovery of a body in a wooded area near a flea market in Port Richey.

Principal at Deer Park to retire Jan. 6 John Shafchuk, who first joined the Pasco County school district in 1975, is about to serve his final day here.

For two days,18-year-old Dakota Herrin took Pasco County sheriff's detectives on a wild goose chase looking for a body that instead eventually led to his arrest.

A New Port Richey woman who killed her 2-year-old son in 2007, telling officers she was trying to "kill the demons," has died at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee.

Soot blackens the outside of the Port Richey home and, while a room in back still contains crayons, it's the death of a young child that colors the mood in this neighborhood.

The price of goofball governing is about to hit home in Port Richey in the form of a $36,000 legal bill from council member Phil Abts.

The sheriff's office confirmed a 6-year-old boy died in the fire. His father has been florwn out with 2nd degree burns.

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A 6-year-old boy was killed in a house fire in Port Richey late Sunday night. The fire broke out at the home at 10925 Bridleton Road just after 11:20 pm.

In 1958, my bride and I bought this '48 Plymouth coupe for $300. The car only had 10,000 miles on it, but it leaked oil when it got hot.

He was her best friend, he was her family. And he never left her side. When Connie Bartels first met Harley, a 7-pound Yorkshire terrier, he had been rescued from an abusive home by her friend.

Donate to Goodwill, win concert package Cleaning out your closet could pay off big at Goodwill's "Next Big Donation" contest this Saturday at the Port Richey store, 10447 U.S. 19.

After dark on Nov. 2, someone broke into Custom Jewelry Creations and helped himself to $70,000 worth of glitzy goods.

Photo: Andrea Butera Since Tropical Storm Ida pretty much passed by Tampa all together, I decided to drive up to New Port Richey to see what kind of weather pictures I could snap.

Craig Carroll walks through the construction site of a new miniature golf course Congo River Golf.

Bob Lyon explains his Helix Wind turbine Friday during installation behind his Port Richey home.

Each Thanksgiving season, a few unlucky Americans manage to burn down their houses trying to deep fry a turkey.