Pasco County News Archives

LAND O' LAKES - In a symbolic vote, unionized Pasco County Sheriff's patrol deputies and detectives have expressed no confidence in Sheriff Bob White.

The southbound lanes of Interstate 75 were temporarily shut down this afternoon because of a vehicle crash north of Dade City.

She'd been working as a nurse at Pasco-Hernando Community College for the last 18 years.

Motorists one day could be paying as much as $6 to drive Interstate 75 through Manatee and Sarasota counties.

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An oversight that let a man convicted of molesting children dodge a sex offender label was corrected in an emergency hearing Friday.

The Florida Highway Patrol has identified the pedestrian who died after he was struck Thursday night by an ambulance side mirror on State Road 52 in Pasco County.

The state fire marshal's office is investigating a fire that killed one person early today.

BROOKSVILLE In 2002, three children, ages 4, 5 and 7, told Pasco County deputies Thomas Wolverton had touched them inappropriately.

Pasco County Sheriff's Deputies were investigating a suspicious incident at a home at 4635 Darlington Road when they discovered a body in the backyard.

John Eugene Odom and Susan Marie Wallen, the Lakeland couple who Polk County's sheriff says are suspects in the murder of two Lakeland men, remain on the loose today, sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Rodgers said.

Two dogs and two cats perished tonight in a fire that consumed a house in a rural area near Pine Valley Drive, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue officials said.

A 7-foot alligator is off the streets in Pasco County. Police say officers captured the large reptile as it was walking down a residential street early Monday morning.

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A nude dancer and her boyfriend were charged with retail theft Friday after they were spotted stealing clothing at a store on County Road 581, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported.

A man was charged with trying to burn down a neighbor's home early Saturday after witnesses spotted him leaving the burning home, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported.

The sister of a Green Beret candidate from Pasco County says her brother died doing Army training he loved.

Pasco County deputies are asking for the public's help in their investigation of a lottery scratch-off ticket machine theft at a Sweetbay Supermarket.

It was one of the oddest requests she'd ever heard. "He said, 'You're going to have to stop laughing,'" she recalled.

A former Pasco County jail deputy has pleaded guilty to possession of an anabolic steroid with intent to distribute.

Gov. Charlie Crist has signed the state's $66 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, approving nearly every request for money that lawmakers made for parks, pools, shelters, roads and other local ...

LAND O' LAKES - Paramedics are attempting to revive a 1-year-old boy who was pulled from a pool at a home in the Willow Bend subdivision.

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A 29-year-old preschool teacher was arrested by Pasco County deputies Thursday, accused of fondling a 4-year-old boy during nap time.

The 26-year-old father was upset that his baby wouldn't stop crying and had a soiled diaper, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report.

A section of Interstate 75 North in Pasco County was to be shut down briefly about 2:30 p.m. so a medical helicopter could pick up a crash victim, according to Pasco Fire Rescue.

A man suspected of beating and raping a woman after he invited her into his home on Monday has been found dead in Land O' Lakes in what authorities are calling a suicide.

A man was charged with armed burglary, violating a domestic violence injunction and tampering with a witness early Saturday following a domestic confrontation, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported.