A sparse crowd turned out Monday evening for county commissioners' first public hearing to discuss their proposed budget for the 2009 fiscal year. ...more

September 10, 2008

Pasco County's budget for 2009 will be the subject of a public hearing by county commissioners Monday evening. ...more

September 6, 2008

County officials and the Sheriff's Office remain at odds over how best to use inmate labor on county projects. ...more

September 5, 2008

The nonprofit Seniors vs. Crime Project until now has focused on helping elderly residents get their money back from scam artists. ...more

September 5, 2008

The nonprofit Seniors vs. Crime Project until now has focused on helping elderly residents get their money back from scam artists. ...more

September 3, 2008

A day after neighbors found an 82-year-old man dead and his wife left bound for about 10 hours inside their Timber Oaks home, most of the yellow crime scene tape was gone. ...more

August 30, 2008

A day after neighbors found an 82-year-old man dead and his wife left bound for about 10 hours inside their Timber Oaks home, deputies were investigating and trying to calm neighbors. ...more

August 29, 2008

As illuminating juxtapositions go, this one was hard to miss. Inside the Alice Hall Community Center, nerve center for the city of pure water's election day activities, the action was as cool as the refrigerated air. Fewer than 100 yards away, lifelong friends lounged in the steamy shade cast by a blue awning while tots splashed in water park spray, both generations utterly indifferent to the day's electoral possibilities or implications. ...more

August 27, 2008