The dog that mauled to death a toddler Saturday night was immediately euthanized after being turned over to Pasco County Animal Services, said Manager Denise Hilton. Twenty-month-old Dallas Lee Walters was killed by a relative's Rottweiler-Labrador mix during a birthday party at his great-aunt's house at 9615 Jerome Drive in Moon Lake. ...more

December 14, 2009

The Hillsborough County Clerk's Office threw a heck of a Hail Mary pass Thursday in attempts to get the University of South Florida football team to the International Bowl in Toronto on Jan. 2. ...more

December 12, 2009

It was standing room only on Nov. 17 in the city council chambers. ...more

November 25, 2009

Two men whose plane crashed in rural Pasco County on Sunday are in critical condition, according to Pasco sheriff's office officials. Pilot Arthur J. Michaud, 49, of 10524 Merlin Drive, New Port Richey, and Anthony Parisi, 46, of 3055 Sugar Bear Trail, Palm Harbor, crash-landed at Pilot Country on State Road 52 in Shady Hills about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. ...more

October 26, 2009

Federal authorities made 1,785 arrests nationwide, including 138 in Florida, during a six-month initiative by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...more

October 16, 2009

Three Jeep Wranglers were set on fire this morning, one in Largo and two not far away in the jurisdiction of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, officials say. ...more

July 16, 2009

Sheriff Bob White announced today he will phase out a unit that tracks court defendants before trials and reassign the unit's four deputies to patrol duty. ...more

March 20, 2009

For years there was an annual late-summer rite that occurred all around Florida. The local sheriff, in good economic times or bad, would suggest in a public fashion the bad guys were winning the upper hand and the sheriff's agency needed more money to put extra personnel and equipment on the street to take back the initiative. These days, however, Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats is cutting spending in response to the drop in revenue the county is experiencing as a result of the collapse of the Florida housing industry and the nationwide economic recession. ...more

February 21, 2009

A Pasco County sheriff's deputy fired last month after an investigation found he was slacking on the job is asking a judge to reinstate him. ...more

February 11, 2009

A Pasco County sheriff's deputy fired last month after an investigation found he was slacking on the job is asking a judge to reinstate him. ...more

February 9, 2009