An operator is standing by - at home. Companies that supply customer service agents to businesses around the world say they are saving money and attracting better employees by letting them work from their own houses. Using Internet telephone technology, the operators are able to answer questions and hear out complaints as if they were working in a sprawling call center in an office park. ...more

November 29, 2008

After getting home from work Tuesday, Joe Desousa took his 11-year-old pit bull, Troy, out for a walk and moments later he was running for his life, he said. ...more

September 11, 2008

After getting home from work Tuesday, Joe Desousa took his 11-year-old pit bull, Troy, out for a walk and moments later he was running for his life. He kept to his property and the sidewalk behind his house along Library Road and then started back toward his home on Muffin Court when he saw his neighbor coming toward him. Then he saw the machete in one hand and gun in the other as the man approached, he said. Peter J. Petraglia, 62, screamed to Desousa he was going to kill him, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report, and squeezed the trigger, firing the gun but missed him. Desousa started to run toward his porch with Troy in tow. ...more

September 10, 2008

The developer of Seven Oaks said Wednesday that the community is not on the list of possible sites for a psychiatric hospital proposed for land near Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. ...more

August 7, 2008

An Orlando-area health care provider has won state approval for a psychiatric care facility to be located at a site along Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. ...more

June 25, 2008

As the national average price of gasoline raced toward $4 a gallon and airlines laid off workers by the thousands because of rising jet fuel costs, the U.S. House of Representatives took action: It overwhelmingly passed the Gas Price Relief for Consumers Act of 2008. ...more

June 25, 2008

Michael Robinson of Spring Hill pre-qualified Tuesday to run for county commissioner representing District 5 in eastern Hernando County. ...more

February 20, 2008

Michael Robinson of Spring Hill pre-qualified Tuesday to run for county commissioner representing District 5 in eastern Hernando County. ...more

February 19, 2008

The three top executives leaving WellCare Health Plans will walk away from the company with millions of dollars in stock options and restricted stock, as long as they agree not to disparage the company and agree to cooperate with government investigations into its operations. ...more

February 2, 2008

Jeff Albanese leans over the starboard side of the Green Armada boat and scoops a large plastic bag from the Hillsborough River. He shakes his head while watching water drip off it and through his rubber net. ...more

January 7, 2008