A Dade City man angry that his vehicle wasn't returned on time broke into a house New Year's Day and stabbed the man who borrowed it, authorities say. ...more

January 6, 2009

An 80-year-old woman is in critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa after a three-vehicle wreck at U.S. 301 and Trilby Road, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The wreck happened 7:45 p.m. Sunday. Alice Richardson Neish of Zephyrhills was traveling north on U.S. 301 when, for unknown reasons, she veered into the southbound lanes, the highway patrol said. She was critically injured after her 2008 Chevrolet Cavalier struck a 1997 Buick before getting broadsided by a 2008 Nissan. The driver of the Cavalier, Maricela Benites-Rodriguez, 31, of San Antonio, was taken to St. Joseph's with serious injuries, as were the Nissan's driver, Michael Hernandez, 50, of Wesley Chapel, and his passengers, Darlene Lugo-Hernandez, 44, and Jonathan Hernandez, 11. The highway patrol was investigating. The victims' conditions were unavailable today. ...more

September 22, 2008

A 11/2-year-old boy was flown by medical helicopter to Tampa General Hospital after accidentally being run over twice by his father Thursday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

September 19, 2008

TRILBY A toddler was flown by medical helicopter to Tampa General Hospital after being run over twice by his 26-year-old father Thursday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Andrew F. Pope III, 1 1/2, apparently walked behind his father's four-door Mercury while his father, Andrew F. Pope Jr., was backing out of a dirt driveway at a home they were visiting at 37125 Trilby Road, said Sgt. Steve Gaskins. Pope Jr. didn't see the boy and backed over him with the car's right rear tire, according to a highway patrol report. Unsure of what happened, he drove forward and ran over his son again with the right rear tire at about 2:30 p.m. The toddler was in critical condition Thursday night, Gaskins said. ...more

September 18, 2008

The green Lincoln swerved toward a motorcycle on U.S. 301, and when the biker made an obscene gesture, the stakes were raised, according to sheriff's office and city police reports. ...more

June 19, 2008

About the only sounds you'll hear at the doublewide off Old Trilby Road are the buzzing of a circular saw and the pounding of nails. ...more

June 7, 2008

An old cow thought to have been attacked by dogs was shot - 11 times - to end its suffering. ...more

December 18, 2007

An old cow chewed up by the neighbor's dogs was shot to end its suffering — 11 times. ...more

December 17, 2007

Since at least August, dozens of residents in areas near Dade City have come home to find someone had broken in and taken prized possessions. ...more

December 8, 2007