Pasco County News Archives

Investigators have identified a man and a woman found dead in their home Thursday night.

Pasco County deputies say the bodies of a man and a woman have been found inside a house on Minnesota Avenue in Zephyrhills.

He reeked of alcohol, his speech was slurred, his eyes bloodshot and glassy. That's how the report of a Pasco County sheriff's deputy described Port Richey City Councilman Steve O'Neill early Sunday after he ...

Faced with a mountain of overtime debt, officials in this east Pasco County municipality have come up with a novel approach to compensate workers: offering them plots in the city's cemetery.

Deputies are looking for a man that robbed the Sweetbay supermarket pharmacy in Holiday late Friday morning.

THE LEDGER LAKELAND There's rain out there right now, it's a question of whether it will get to Polk County today.

FOX 31 / MyFoxColorado's SkyFOX is over the area in Northern Colorado where a tornado stuck today.

A 16-year-old Pasco High School student was arrested Tuesday, accused of tampering with her mom's food, knowing she would have an allergic reaction.

“During the past year, we have actively solicited community input and suggestions about this project”

Progress Energy said this morning that it has selected a path for 200 miles of high-voltage power lines that would cut across several counties, including northern Hillsborough County. via Tampa Bay Online

“This appears to be a different situation”

Sheriff's detectives are investigating the third killing in the Tommy Town area north of Dade City in two days. via Tampa Bay Online

Authorities have identified the victims of last night's double homicide near the corner of Meredith Street and Hutchinson Street in the Tommy Town area of Dade City. via Tampa Bay Online

Pasco deputies say two eleven year-old students got into a fight on a bus carrying students home from Gulfside Elementary in Holiday. via 98ROCK Tampa

“The three boys are taking it hard. They worship their father”

Lawyers for the sons and wife of a Tampa police officer killed in a May 1 motorcycle wreck have put Pasco County on notice of their intent to sue for damages. via Tampa Bay Online

“One of the women was battered”

Pasco County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating a home-invasion robbery this morning during which masked men held guns to the heads of 6-month-old and 2-year-old children. via Tampa Bay Online

“That I think was embellished after the fact to try to cover what initially what they were saying to me”

Long-time readers know that I take a certain amount of pleasure in mocking Florida, where I was born and raised. via The Carpetbagger Report

LAND O' LAKES -- A group of children headed to school from the Chelsea Woods Apartments shared their bus shelter with a dead man this morning. via Tampa Bay Online

“He was just an amazing person”

The plan was to scatter the ashes of her father over the St. Johns River on Florida's east coast, at the spot where he enjoyed spending his final years catching shrimp. via Tampa Bay Online

Two people died and three others were injured in separate accidents on Saturday, one in Pasco County and one in Pinellas County. via Tampa Bay Online

“Also, on the same letter, on the reverse side, the writer (presumably, Deanne) wrote several lines which could be perceived as goodbyes”

Deanne Martin grabbed her purse and told her family she would be right back. She left their Wesley Chapel home about 10:25 p.m. on April 28. via Tampa Bay Online

Land O' Lakes, Florida - Pasco County Sheriff's Detectives are investigating the murder of a Pasco County woman found shot to death on her front porch. via WLTX-TV Columbia

After a two-week search for a man detectives think shot his neighbor in Wesley Chapel, Pasco County deputies have made an arrest. via Tampa Bay Online

Fire trucks blocking U.S. 19 in both directions north of Jasmine Boulevard have just been moved after emergency crews were able to stop a natural gas leak coming from the Congo River miniature golf course ... via Tampa Bay Online

A crash involving a Pasco County bus, a sheriff's office cruiser and another vehicle sent about eight people including bus passengers to local hospitals. via Tampa Bay Online

Pasco County Sheriff's detectives have released the name of a suspect wanted for questioning in the murder of a Land O' Lakes woman on Saturday. via Tampabays10.com

“I refused any help from my family because I didn't want them to own me”

The news, in an 8:45 a.m. phone call, hit like a death in the family. "There's been a takeover," Helen Rosburg's sister and fellow Wrigley chewing-gum company heiress said April 28 when Rosburg picked up the ... via Tampa Bay Online

A Pasco County, Florida, substitute teacher's job is on the line. The charge from the school district - Wizardry. via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

A Tampa Bay area deputy is hospitalized on Monday after being dragged and run over by a truck he pulled over for a traffic violation. via WESH

“We finally ran up against that last $11-million, and there was only one way to do that.”

By Thomas C. Tobin , Times Staff Writer In print: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Pinellas school officials proposed a 2 percent pay cut for all district employees and raised the possibility that seven to 10 schools ... via St. Petersburg Times

Pasco County deputies are investigating a report of a dead baby found in a bag behind a doctor's office. via Tampa Bay Online

“I think they need to screen their applicants a lot closer”

Lutz, Florida - "For the first two weeks, every time I thought of it, I cried." Donna Jopek is describing her reaction to home repairs made as part of the My Safe Florida Home program. via WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg