Sheriff's deputies in Pasco County have released a composite image and beefed up patrols near school bus stops and schools where they believe a serial flasher is stalking children. Two cases have been in Holiday Lake Estates - one near a school - and the other four have been near schools as well. ...more

November 13, 2009

Pasco County sheriff's deputies and New Port Richey police are trying to determine whether six cases of a man exposing his genitals in public are connected. ...more

November 11, 2009

Pasco deputies and New Port Richey police are trying to figure out if six reported cases of a man exposing his genitals in public is the same man. ...more

November 10, 2009

Law enforcement pays closer attention to sex offenders on Halloween. They're doing so not only to protect children from predators, but possibly predators from the public. ...more

October 28, 2009

The father of Jessica Lunsford, a Florida girl whose abduction and murder prompted better tracking of sex offenders and harsher punishment for repeat offenders, says he has a new child. ...more

April 11, 2009

Offenders sentenced to wear ankle bracelets would have to pay for their own monitoring, up to about $3,300 a year, under a bill Florida lawmakers advanced Tuesday. ...more

April 1, 2009

A sandy shoreline runs outside Patrick Wiese's front door. A white crane toes through gentle blue-green waters as the sun beams overhead. The view of downtown is spectacular, the fishing good and the rent free. ...more

March 27, 2009

Apartments rented to sex offenders that were at the center of a city zoning debate last year could be headed for foreclosure, court records show. ...more

October 15, 2008

A day care at the John Calvin Presbyterian Church opened this week, and that means some neighbors will have to move. ...more

September 6, 2008

A day care at the John Calvin Presbyterian Church opened this week, and that means some neighbors will have to move. An apartment complex across the street from the Seminole Heights church houses 10 sex offenders, four of whom aren't allowed to live near the day care, said Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. ...more

September 5, 2008