Pasco County Emergency Services formally unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar addition Tuesday morning, the new Heritage Pines Station No. 39. ...more

October 22, 2008

AVON PARK — The Avon Park Police Department is looking for a suspect in an attempted murder that took place at noon on Sunday, off of West Hall Street. ...more

February 11, 2008

"911, what is your emergency?" "I need an ambulance. My mother just called and I think my dad is having a heart attack!" ...more

January 24, 2008

Two people were killed when the car in which they were riding collided with a Polk County school bus Monday morning. No students on the bus were injured, authorities said. ...more

January 8, 2008

BARTOW - An early morning wreck involving a Polk County school bus resulted in two fatalities, but no students were injured. ...more

January 7, 2008

No doubt as Johnnie Schoolfield and Theo Thomas thrashed about in the water in a doomed struggle to avoid drowning, they had to appreciate that while Manatee County emergency services paramedics stood by watching them die, nothing would have pleased the badges more to be able to help were it not for those gosh-darned regulations, policies and procedures obligating them to remain on shore. ...more

January 3, 2008

Where there's smoke, there's fire – and longtime firefighter Timothy Fussell. A mainstay for 32 years, Fussell retired Sept. 29 as a battalion chief for the Pasco County Emergency Services Department. County commissioners recently honored him with a resolution. ...more

October 27, 2007