Criss Angel already has walked on water, so escaping from handcuffs and getting out of the Spyglass Resort tonight before it implodes should be a snap. ...more

July 30, 2008

If only the federal government could pull off this trick. The proposed fiscal 2009 budget Pasco County Administrator John Gallagher unveiled last week is 19 percent below the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. That would put the county budget for next year below the $1 billion threshold, at roughly $980 million. ...more

July 23, 2008

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Video recorded during the rescue of 15 hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying tears of joy after they are aloft and realize they are free. ...more

July 4, 2008

TAMPA - The next public meeting of the independent commission reviewing Hillsborough County's jails will begin at 10 this morning. ...more

June 2, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Despite his family's wishes, Pasco County jail officials have refused Bobby Lee Black III's request for transport to his grandmother's funeral in Kissimmee. ...more

May 3, 2008

Failure To Communicate? Regarding the wheelchair-dumping incident at the Orient Road Jail: ...more

February 23, 2008

TAMPA - Two professional football players, Oakland's Fabian Washington and Denver's Andre Hall, were booked into Tampa Bay area jails over the past 24 hours. ...more

February 20, 2008

With nearly 280 inmates sleeping in temporary bedding at Pasco jails, Sheriff Bob White was perturbed today by the latest delay in building a permanent jail addition. ...more

February 1, 2008

Only 45 days after a tornado ripped apart a temporary Pasco jail annex, Sheriff Bob White and county officials marveled today at how quickly a replacement was erected at the county's main detention center in Land O' Lakes. ...more

February 1, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Even a tornado can't keep a good jail down. Less than two months after an EF-1 tornado tore through the central jail complex, off Land O' Lakes Boulevard, the final touches were being made Thursday on the newly erected structure, replacing the one destroyed in the early morning hours of Dec. 16. ...more

January 31, 2008