MULBERRY The handler of police canine Sam Diesel had kept the German shepherd in a portable kennel at the Mulberry Police Department in the weeks before the dog died inside a patrol car with faulty air conditioning, according to an investigative report released Tuesday by the agency. ...more

August 5, 2008

A 37-year-old Port Richey woman was charged Friday with child abuse, drug possession and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit after she lit up a marijuana cigarette outside a grocery store, police said. ...more

August 3, 2008

A 46-year-old teacher in Pasco County with three children in her van was charged Friday with child neglect and endangerment and driving under the influence. ...more

August 3, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY A 37-year-old Port Richey woman was charged Friday with child abuse, drug possession and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit after she left two children in a car outside a grocery store. ...more

August 2, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - A 46-year-old teacher in Pasco County with three children in her van was charged Friday with child neglect and endangerment and driving under the influence. ...more

August 2, 2008

Police administrators said they warned cab company owners Thursday morning that having cabbies carry guns is not the answer to the city's recent increase in taxi robberies. ...more

July 25, 2008

Police administrators said they warned cab company owners this morning that cabbies carrying guns is not the answer to the city's recent increase in taxi robberies. ...more

July 24, 2008

Deputies arrested a woman on child neglect and drug charges because her 3-year-old son was sitting next to her in the car when she sold crack cocaine to a confidential informant, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

July 20, 2008

The media is watching this weekend as likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is off in Europe and the Middle East, hoping to impress the locals and build up some kind of resume on one of those "If-It's-Tuesday-It-Must-Be-Baghdad" junkets. ...more

July 20, 2008

Police are looking for two men who attacked a cab driver at knifepoint, one of whom the cabbie stabbed in the hand. ...more

July 19, 2008