Many around Samson knew Bruce Maloy as their town's comedian, a goodhearted, wiry little jokester who was always boasting about hitting it big someday. ...more

March 13, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - A group of children headed to school from the Chelsea Woods Apartments shared their bus shelter with a dead man Friday morning. ...more

May 10, 2008

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. Deputies responding to an 8:27 a.m. call from a distressed mother found a 19-year-old white male sitting on a bench in a bus shelter at 4453 Alpine Road. Investigators believe he died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head; a neighbor reported hearing a gunshot at about 3:50 a.m. today, Pasco County Sheriff's Office spokesman Doug Tobin said. ...more

May 9, 2008

"Untraceable" is one of those deplorably gratuitous movies that wants to have it both ways, but gets nothing right. ...more

January 24, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - A 22-year-old man injured in a shooting last night has died, Assistant Police Chief Darryl W. Garman said this morning. The name of the victim, described only as a Hispanic male, was not immediately available. The shooting happened about 8 p.m. Friday at 5450 St. James Street. The 911 call came in as "a gunshot to the head.'' ...more

November 10, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY - Police are investigating a shooting that occurred at 5450 St. James St. Police responded to the address when a 911 call describing "a gunshot to the head" came in about 8 p.m. Friday, said assistant police Chief Darryl W. Garman. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA - Lucky, a 2-year-old mutt belonging to a woman gunned down by her boyfriend, is en route to Buffalo, N.Y., to be reunited with the woman's daughter. ...more

November 8, 2007

Brittney Klodzinski refused to come back. The 14-year-old was scared of her mother's boyfriend, Trevor McGinty, and his violent streak that Brittney saw targeting her mother, Wendy Dusza. ...more

November 8, 2007

Eight years ago, not long after 72-year-old Anne Beale Golsan had retired on disability from her job as a librarian, she put a stack of paid bills out for the mail, hung up a freshly pressed outfit and taped a note to the front of the house. ...more

September 21, 2007