A Cape Coral soldier has died in Iraq, and a Jacksonville Marine has died in Afghanistan. ...more

December 3, 2009

A 46-year-old Land O' Lakes man has been accused of setting his own house on fire. Pasco County sheriff's deputies say David Wayne Cox, of 4151 Gerry Lane, used a cigarette lighter Saturday to intentionally spark fires on the first and second floors of his home. ...more

November 30, 2009

It is obvious that the leadership of Hernando County continues to prescribe to old solutions to long-term problems. ...more

November 12, 2009

The government is investigating a potential fire risk in more than 200,000 Jeep Wranglers. ...more

August 17, 2009

Sam the koala, who gained worldwide fame and sympathy when she was rescued during Australia's devastating wildfires earlier this year, was euthanized Thursday after a veterinarian found that cysts from a disease that is one of the main killers of koalas were inoperable. ...more

August 7, 2009

A fire that raged through an apartment complex building this morning was arson, investigators said, the second in less than a month at Waterman's Crossing. ...more

August 3, 2009

The recent billboards denouncing separation of church and state have ignited the fires of a controversy that has been smoldering for decades. Not only has it been virtually unquestioned that the United States is a Christian nation, the much deeper assumption has been that morality can only be derived from religion. This is an enormous leap of faith even for the most religious zealous. ...more

July 23, 2009

On any given day, legions of city-owned cars, trucks and SUVs haul away garbage, fix potholes, put out fires and patrol neighborhoods. ...more

June 10, 2009

Fire investigators will be out at Seffner Christian Academy today to determine why three buses caught fire just before 6 a.m. ...more

May 25, 2009

Two controlled burns in the Withlacoochee State Forest are causing a haze of smoke in eastern and central Hernando County ...more

April 22, 2009