The Polk County Sheriff's Office is looking for vandals who did $3,000 damage to a school bus in Mulberry. ...more

September 30, 2008

Evemarie Lewin has been feeling boxed in about where she can mail her letters in West Pasco. Recently it seemed to her that more and more of the big blue outdoor boxes have been vanishing from area streets. Whether the outdoor box has a standard flip-down lid or a "snorkel" horn chute, Lewin finds them to be much more convenient than going inside post office lobbies to drop off her mail. ...more

September 17, 2008

Institute Fee Re: "Sports Leagues Oppose $20 Fee" in the Aug. 31 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

September 4, 2008

The east side of Hernando County is a world apart from the hustle and bustle of the coast. ...more

August 30, 2008

Some downtown merchants have petitioned for an increased police presence downtown, but Police Chief Bill McDaniel said a plan is already in the works. ...more

August 27, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Sheriff's investigators are looking into what they think are related incidents of vandalism in the Lake Padgett Estates neighborhood. ...more

July 10, 2008

Sheriff's investigators are looking into what they believe are related incidents of vandalism in the Lake Padgett Estates neighborhood. The latest to report damage is Robert Lovering, a lieutenant with the Tampa Police Department who lives in the neighborhood. Lovering told a Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputy that someone used golf balls to dent the front of his police vehicle while it was parked outside his house Sunday morning. ...more

July 9, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS -- Police and Cycadia Cemetery officials would like to know who stole a 75-pound marble sphere from atop a monument in the municipal graveyard. The 71-year old marker that was vandalized is a memorial to Viola Keeney Beekman. She donated property to start the cemetery in 1887. ...more

July 9, 2008

Nosy neighbors rejoice. A new feature on the sheriff's office's Web site provides the public with real-time information about the crime in their neighborhood. ...more

July 8, 2008

In the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, nine protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring weather. ...more

July 8, 2008