Spring Hill News

Top: Sheriff Al Nienhuis meets with deputies at the start of Saturday's expo. Left: Expo organizers had to divert traffic to other locations when the Weeki Wachee Springs parking lot reached capacity.

The Spring Hill Art League along with Art, Craft, Bridal and Frame Inc. held a reception for local artists Carole Coutu, Barbara Gosney, Nine Ketcham, and Ella Tindall in March.

The Hernando County Commission hosts a workshop to discuss the proposed 2012-13 county budget at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the commission chambers at the Government Center, 20 N Main St.

One of the best known sinkhole repair businesses in the Tampa Bay area is headed for receivership while its owners try to settle an ongoing dispute over controlling interest.

Maurice Paradise, 82, relishes seeing his newly repaired 1942 half-ton Chevrolet pickup.

Seeking to bring a large-scale Christian event to the local Hispanic community, Miguel and Jennifer Candelario of the evangelistic ministry Isaias 6:8 will present 2nd Night of Praise at Iglesia Corona de Vida next weekend.

Successful restaurants that consistently attract loyal customers cater to a calibrated sampling of senses.

The crash scene investigator said he suspected James Paul Conaty had drugs in his system when he slammed his motorcycle into a 73-year-old woman and killed her.

Crescent Community Clinic presents its signature event, Diamond Jubilee for the Queen High Tea, from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Lake House, 1202 Kenlake Ave., Spring Hill.

HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. - Detectives arrested the owner of a pest control company for allegedly stealing jewelry from the homes of his customers.

Seth Dillon Ciarleglio, 18, of 2321 Ring Road, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and resisting arrest without violence.

SPRING HILL, Fla. - Accused of killing his two-month-old daughter in Pasco County, 30-year-old Shawn Gordon Baxter was arrested in Texas on Thursday.

BLOOD DONATION CHALLENGE: LifeSouth Community Blood Center will host a countywide Year End Challenge from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at two locations: Walmart, 13300 Cortez Blvd., Spring Hill.

A Hernando elections office worker has accused county Commissioner Jeff Stabins of using a racial epithet, the latest in what the staffer says has been a pattern of verbal harassment by the commissioner.

A Dade City pest control business owner has been arrested on charges of grand theft and possession of illegal substances, accused of stealing items from customers' homes.

She had made plans to visit the grave of her husband, Bill, at Florida National Cemetery near Bushnell on Sunday, as she did every Memorial Day weekend, said her granddaughter, Jenifer Halkais of Palm Harbor.

Cassaundra Curtis and Angela Boice are the dynamic mother and daughter hair artists behind Wild Orchid Design Studio.

Peter Leyzac of Spring Hill takes advantage of the wind Tuesday on the Gulf just off the beach at Alfred A. McKethan Park.

SPRING HILL An 18-year-old man was jailed last weekend following reports of a shooting Friday night outside a gas station.

The 37-year-old Spring Hill man was accused of forcing his adopted son to guzzle large quantities of water, which caused the boy's organs to shut down.