LAND O' LAKES - After months of tense negotiations, Pasco County school employees may get new contracts next week. ...more

January 31, 2009

Deputies called to a mobile home park today to remove a revolver and bullets found something else - what appeared to be military ordnance. ...more

January 30, 2009

The grandfather of a slain Florida toddler has been located in a Daytona Beach motel, shortly after authorities reported he had gone missing. ...more

January 23, 2009

Howie Mandel has been hospitalized in Canada with an irregular heartbeat, his publicist said. ...more

January 13, 2009

Detectives in Polk County have arrested one man and are questioning another in the death of a 28-year-old man found floating in a phosphate pit on Friday. ...more

January 11, 2009

Monday will be the second anniversary of a tragic time in our county. It's the date State Trooper Sgt. Nick Sottile was shot down along U.S. 27 north of Lake Placid. It's a date that those who knew Sottile, and those who did not, were in shock at the brutality that happened that afternoon against a man known and loved in his community. ...more

January 11, 2009

In the hours after he killed the mother of his child, Vincent George Brown Jr. recorded an eerie greeting on his cell phone, attended a party in East Tampa and drove the car from whose trunk the woman had called 911 for help, police said today. ...more

January 9, 2009

A body discovered this morning in a vacant lot is that of a 15-year-old girl reported as a runaway a month ago, St. Petersburg police said. She had been shot. The body of Malayshia Kierra Gamble was found at 8:10 a.m. at 856 Preston Ave. S., said St. Petersburg police spokesman Bill Proffitt. ...more

January 9, 2009

The Kidapalooza Winter event at Southtown Shopping Center in South Tampa collected more than 100 toys for the Child Abuse Council. The Dec. 14 event was hosted by Divine Events, a social and educational resource for moms in Tampa, founded in April. Entertainment, music and food kept children busy while parents and family members finished holiday shopping. ...more

January 7, 2009

Crystal Rusaw had scheduled a Jan. 9 Caesarean delivery for her second child, but Pasco County's first baby of 2009 had other ideas. Antonio Larry Rusaw waited until everyone in his family had gone to bed before starting his way into the world. His mother's water broke about 1:30 a.m. Thursday shortly after she had put her year-old daughter, Jasmine, to bed. "I had just laid down," Crystal Rusaw said Thursday afternoon as she recovered in her room at Community Hospital in New Port Richey. ...more

January 2, 2009