The issue: Spring Hill Fire Rescue board votes to transfer emergency dispatching to county. Our opinion: Fire commissioners deserve praise for long overdue decision. ...more

March 1, 2009

Sheriff Richard Nugent gripped the podium Thursday morning, his red-rimmed eyes blinking rapidly. ...more

February 20, 2009

Two adults and two children were hospitalized Saturday night after a minivan and an orange transporter truck collided in front of the Golden Corral restaurant on U.S. 27 in Lake Placid, according to Emergency Medical Services. ...more

February 17, 2009

It takes a lot of planning to hold the Sebring 12 Hours of Bar-B-Que, also known in these parts as the "Pig Fest," and Sebring Police Chief Tom Dettman is scheduled Tuesday to present the city council with road closure requests for the annual Firemen's Inc. Tractor Parade. ...more

December 15, 2008

County commissioners on Tuesday are expected to approve an interlocal agreement that will transfer daily oversight of the emergency management department to the sheriff's office. ...more

December 1, 2008

The Emergency Operations Center in New Port Richey fields 911 calls. The calls are routed through the center and dispatched to Fire Rescue or the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, as appropriate. ...more

November 19, 2008

Loud knocking on the front door early in the morning, before the sun comes up, would catch most sleeping residents by surprise. ...more

October 24, 2008

I was a communications officer for the U.S. Department of State. ...more

October 9, 2008

Hurricane Ike is currently no threat to Hernando County. That was the latest word Monday from Emergency Operations Center officials as the storm battered Cuba. Ike, a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, is expected to merge back into the Gulf of Mexico by tonight where it could gather strength as it churns west-northwest through the Gulf of Mexico towards the Louisiana and Texas coasts. ...more

September 9, 2008

An "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike bulked up to Category 4 strength Saturday and the storm lurked "near or over" the British territory of Turks and Caicos islands. ...more

September 7, 2008