A former Pasco County sheriff's deputy has agreed to plead guilty to federal drug and firearms charges. Don Riggans, 34, faces a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of life for possessing a firearm in connection with drug trafficking. He also has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to possess hydrocodone, a charge that carries up to five years behind bars. ...more

September 11, 2008

Along with normal first-day jitters and excitement, students in this tiny district started school Monday wondering which teachers might be toting firearms. ...more

August 26, 2008

Along with normal first-day jitters and excitement, students in this tiny district started school Monday wondering which teachers might be toting firearms. ...more

August 26, 2008

Cruising in on the driveway into Camp Cloverleaf Thursday morning, long before you could see the children learning to shoot clay pigeons whizzing by at 55 mph, you heard the pop-pop-pop of their shotguns. ...more

July 25, 2008

After Darrel Engram was arrested Monday on charges of making an unlawful pawn transaction, police say he told them how he got the purloined property. He set up his cousin, according to an affidavit, who was the victim of an armed home invasion four days earlier. ...more

July 23, 2008

Randy Goggin of New Port Richey says John McCain's position on energy only marginally better than Barack Obama's. ...more

July 12, 2008

"In life there is good and bad" was the headline of your Monday editorial. Yes there is; one thing that is very bad is a small conservative town misrepresented by the embarrassingly prejudiced scribbling of a very liberal local editor. In an editorial printed by another paper and printed in Highlands Today, saying it's hard for see how the new workplace law allowing firearms in locked vehicles owned by concealed firearm permit holders could pass, clearly shows alliance with anti-second amendment partisans whose claims and views have been consistently disproved by statistics and recently debunked by the Supreme Court. ...more

July 10, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY - Sheriff's detectives say they had arrested two people in connection with several burglaries dating back to August 2007. ...more

July 8, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Walt Disney World has fired a guard who challenged the theme park on a new state law allowing gun owners to keep firearms in their cars while at work. ...more

July 8, 2008

A man was arrested and two firearms were seized Thursday after a woman told authorities she was beaten and threatened. ...more

July 6, 2008