Pasco County News Archives

“Dynamic Payables leverages an open SharePoint architecture that will become a key part of our business infrastructure and as we continue to grow, and this solution allows us to automate our AP process to meet our current and future needs.”

The initial deployment will deliver an electronic workflow to the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners for their payables. via Earth Times

“I promise that from this day forward we will not have problems with touch screens that's a joke because we won't have touch screens”

Florida's Presidential Primary results are pouring in, and it looks like tax relief is on the way. via WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

“I'd love to tell you I know all the dynamics here. I really don't”

McCain's Volunteer Army By Juliet Eilperin MIAMI -- Just before Sen. John McCain took the stage here tonight his state chairman Phil Handy -- beer in hand -- looked around in amazement. via The Washington Post

“We know of no reasons why we're going to have any issues to deal with.”

Election coverage: Voters upset by closed primaries Updated 11:30 a.m. Paige St. via Tallahassee Democrat

The Boynton Beach area may have seen the worst of a storm that lasted well into Wednesday morning for some parts of southern Florida. via WPBF.com

“I don't think we can take for granted that people know how to mark the ballot”

Miami-Dade Paid $24.5 Million For 7,200 Touchscreens Machines SARASOTA When you go to the polls next week for Florida's primary, it'll be the last time you use those highly touted touch-screen voting machines. via CBS 4

“Looking ahead, we believe the combination of Landeavor's land development expertise and Walton Street's strong capital resources will allow the companies to quickly build a portfolio of desirable communities such as Lakeside.”

Pulte Homes has parted ways with its Lakeside community in Hudson, selling the 438-acre site to a Chicago partnership. via Commercial Real Estate

“I still think they're a good system”

After next week, voting in Florida will be less like withdrawing money from an ATM and more like taking the SAT. via HendersonvilleNews.com

Severe thunderstorms moved out of the gulf into Pasco and Pinellas counties on Tuesday night, forcing the National Weather Service in Ruskin to issue a severe thunderstorm warning. via WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg

A teen shot in the stomach Tuesday afternoon is in stable condition, Pasco County Sheriff's authorities said. via Tampa Bay Online

A 34-year-old Spring Hill man has been arrested in connection with a Christmas Day crash at U.S. 19 and Little Road that killed three people. via Tampa Bay Online

The body was found by a couple of teenagers in the back of a pickup. Both the ground around the pickup and the body were badly burned. via WCTV Tallahassee

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office was investigating the death of a person found on a hiking trail near Lake Drive and Coronado Way on Friday evening. via Tampa Bay Online

“Knowingly allowing a convicted felon to act as a bail bonds agent.”

By WTSP-TV Tampa NEW PORT RICHEY, FL -- It's double trouble for a set of Pasco County twins -- one accused of being an illegal bail bonds agent and his brother arrested for allowing him to do it. via WTLV

“Good. She should have kept her hands to herself.”

DADE CITY A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated battery after deputies say he stabbed a 13-year-old girl in the eye with a pen, possibly damaging her vision permanently. via The Ledger

“Four juveniles were in the garage at the time and at one point in the late afternoon just before five o'clock the 16-year-old was shot and we're still trying to figure out if it was intentional or accidental.”

Moon Lake - The shooting happened at 11919 Boca Grande Avenue according to investigators. via Tampabays10.com

By Chris Echegaray and Geoff Fox of The Tampa Tribune MOON LAKE - A 16-year-old boy was shot in the stomach by his neighbor and flown to a Tampa Bay area hospital Tuesday afternoon, the Pasco County Sheriff's ... via Tampa Bay Online

“We didn't feel the need to risk going to trial, especially when the possibility of incarceration was significant”

Darren Hambrick's third foray into the criminal justice system ended much the same as his first two. via Tampa Bay Online

A 61 year old Shady Hills man, identified as David Hunter, was injured Friday when his vehicle escaped from him. via Associated Content

“I haven't done a whole lot of research on it myself”

State lawmakers are hoping to ring in the New Year with lower property taxes. So Governor Charlie Crist is on a mission to urge Floridians to vote "Yes on 1," the property tax relief proposal. via Tampabays10.com

The Port Richey Police Department says the driver of a Red Nissan pickup truck was involved in a crash in Pasco County, fled the scene, then crashed into another truck on US 19 in Port Richey. via Tampabays10.com

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a 30-year-old man at a home on Sue Ellen Drive in Port Richey Thursday night. via ABC Action News

The Tampa Tribune January 9, 2008 SPRING HILL - Kevin Doll, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office public information director, pleaded not guilty to a domestic battery charge in Hernando County on Tuesday. via Behind The Blue WAll

“We've been investigating this since last week”

Pasco County deputies are investigating the threat of a shooting at Hudson High School. via Tampa Bay Online

For some, the first week of a new year turns thoughts to the future and to one question that arises from the recent past: How do you get rid of that needle-dropping Christmas tree you bought for $75 a month ... via Tampa Bay Online

Hudson, Florida- Cherry Toler, a Pasco County mother, says she is dumfounded. She can't believe it would happen at a public place. via Tampabays10.com

“Obviously the state has been in a drought a long time, a very long time, and with the freeze we had the other night, it just makes everything like a tender box”

For the past two days Pasco County forestry officials battled a 60 acre fire off state road 52. via Tampabays10.com

“In the pioneer days, the people who came to Florida came for the same reasons people originally came to the United States”

This tiny community, dwarfed by the Withlacoochee State Forest that surrounds it, might have been run over by development by now, like many of Florida's rural outposts, except for a quirk of fate. via HeraldTribune.com