This crime index is published in an effort to help residents keep track of crime in their West Pasco neighborhood and to promote public safety. Below is a listing of crimes handled by the Pasco County Sheriff's Office between Oct. 26 and Nov. 8, arranged by ZIP code. These are crimes that have been investigated by deputies and don't reflect unfounded calls for service. ...more

November 19, 2008

Countryside High School students went home a half-hour early today after a fence contractor accidentally damaged a gas line, Pinellas County School District spokeswoman Andrea Zahn said. ...more

September 18, 2008

Despite tightening budgets at both the Hernando County Sheriff's Office and Hernando County School District, the school resource officers at local schools aren't going anywhere. ...more

September 15, 2008

Hernando's newest charter school is getting another chance. After the Hernando County School Board's charter review committee found numerous holes in the initial 550-page proposal for a new school for dropouts - Hernando County Mavericks High D. Wade's Schools, or "Mavericks High," for short - school board members have opted to allow the applicant to submit a new proposal. ...more

September 3, 2008

Officials told to make changes, submit a new proposal. ...more

September 3, 2008

With "multiple deficiencies" found in the proposal for Brooksville's newest charter school, school board members will have two choices tomorrow — allow the applicant to submit a revised proposal or reject it as is. ...more

September 1, 2008

With partly cloudy skies, but a storm looming, Highlands County schools opened Monday with 528 fewer students compared to the year before. ...more

August 19, 2008

Just before 7 a.m. Monday, Evi Gonzalez and his wife, Marlen, sat waiting for assistance in the Reddick Elementary School office. With them were their sons Ryan, 6, and Evi Jr., 5. The couple thought their children were supposed to go to Cypress Creek Elementary, where Ryan was a student last year. They assumed Evi would be enrolled there but were taken by surprise when they got a notice in the mail. Both boys were to become Reddick students. The Gonzalez family was not the only one confused by the change of assignments. Scores of others encountered similar problems and had to wait in line for help at the start of the school day. But the Reddick support staff swarmed to register the children involved and help parents figure out their transportation needs. ...more

August 19, 2008

The 1951 Ford Tudor Sedan with flathead V8 engine, dual carburetors and exhaust garnered the Cruiser of the Month trophy for owners Joe and Helen Ferrante at the April 3 Roamin' Oldies Car Club cruise-in. ...more

May 3, 2008

SARASOTA — Booker Elementary Principal Gwendolyn Tose-Rigell died last night at about 9 p.m., school officials said today. ...more

December 27, 2007