The sheriff's office is calling its recent six-hour operation to dispose of prescription drugs a success. ...more

April 3, 2009

Lawmakers got the bad financial news most were expecting Friday when state economists said they now expect general revenue to be down about $1 billion in the current budget year and more than $2 billion in the next one compared with estimates made four months ago. ...more

March 14, 2009

It may be too early to know how the economy has affected the local homeless population, but organizers of Thursday's countywide homeless census expect an increase. ...more

February 27, 2009

About 180 volunteers are searching behind Wal-Marts, staking out labor pools, circling bus stations and scouring city streets today to count homeless people. ...more

February 26, 2009

Christmas came early this year for the Redlands Christian Migrant Association Academy. ...more

December 24, 2008

The cupboard is far from bare at the local Salvation Army and since toy donations are on track, the spaces beneath the trees of some 300 local needy families will be filled this year. ...more

December 14, 2008

An auto burglary at the Tuscany Point Apartments last week has led to the discovery of a rash of connected auto burglaries in the West Shore area, police said, with at least 20 vehicles broken into by the same people. ...more

August 22, 2008

There will be no new Wal-Marts in Hernando County for a while. That is the word from a regional spokeswoman for the retail giant. ...more

July 4, 2008

RETAILER REASSESSING GROWTH STRATEGY, LOOKING HARDER AT PASCO COUNTY ...more

July 3, 2008

The temporary Wal-Mart Hiring Center had more than 2,000 jobseekers hoping to fill its 350 open positions in time for the new Supercenter's opening in August, according to one of the new Supercenter's co-managers. Sherri Smith, who manned five other hiring centers in the Tampa Bay area, said she was "shocked" by the number of jobseekers that applied at the hiring center the past four weeks since it opened. "It's a lot of paperwork," she said. "For being such a small town, I'm astounded in how many we're getting." ...more

June 25, 2008