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Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2017

Heat may be rising among the millions of Floridians still without power, as 2.3 million homes and businesses head toward finishing a fourth full day without. The latest data from the Florida Office of Emergency Management show 22 percent of the state still was sweating out power outages at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, on what has […]

Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2017

Power outages continue to plague just over one quarter of all the homes and businesses in Florida, though the number fell to almost 2.7 million customers Thursday morning. A 6 a.m. update from the Florida Office of Emergency Management showed that those counties hit first and hardest by Hurricane Irma – Monroe, Collier and Lee […]

Scott PowersSeptember 13, 2017

Wednesday hundreds of thousands of Florida power customers got their lights turned back on but almost exactly one third of Florida is still waiting. The latest numbers from the Florida Office of Emergency management show 3.5 million customers still were without power at 3 p.m. Wednesday, representing 33.4 percent of all Florida homes and businesses. […]

Tamara LushJuly 21, 2017

The Florida sinkhole that swallowed two homes last week isn’t getting any deeper, but it’s getting wider, officials said Wednesday — and one resident who’s back home after being evacuated is vowing to stay unless the hole consumes her house. “I’m apprehensive, a little nervous,” said Patty Camunas, 57, whose family lives near the sinkhole. […]

Michael MolineMay 8, 2017

Legislators from Pasco County urged Gov. Rick Scott Monday to approve legislation authorizing construction of a $4.3 million criminal forensics laboratory there that would attack the state’s 16,000-case backlog of unsolved murders. “This is not about Pasco County. This is about the entire state,” Sen. Wilton Simpson said. The project would “greatly expand law enforcement’s […]

Associated PressMay 8, 2017

Three schools canceled classes due to smoky conditions from a nearby wildfire as Florida’s agriculture commissioner said the state is in the “midst of its worst wildfire season in years – with no end in sight.” Commissioner Adam Putnam said in a news release that nearly 125 active wildfires were burning Monday morning. Officials in […]

Associated PressApril 5, 2017

A third Florida man has pleaded guilty to setting a wooden cross on fire in an interracial couple’s yard. Federal prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday that 56-year-old William Dennis of Port Richey pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to threaten, intimidate and interfere with an interracial couple’s enjoyment of their housing rights. Two other […]

Tom JacksonSeptember 13, 2016

Whatever else we might be tempted to say in the aftermath of last month’s recent primary election, for those who live and/or work in Pasco County, this, above all, is beyond dispute: Pasco is Mike Fasano’s county. Everyone else is just visiting. Who but Fasano, the nudging, empathetic, perpetually beatifying champion of the “little guy […]

Jim RosicaJuly 20, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday appointed three deputy prosecutors as county judges on the west coast of Florida. Joseph A. Poblick, who was in private practice, will be a new Pasco County judge. He replaces Judge Marc H. Salton. Poblick, 41, of Dade City, has also been an assistant state attorney for the 9th Judicial […]

Phil AmmannApril 1, 2016

Every day in Florida, volunteers serve at schools, senior centers, state parks, and non-profits. They mentor and tutor vulnerable students, restore Florida’s precious natural resources, provide meals to homebound individuals, and work with those with unique abilities. They make our communities safer, stronger and healthier. Volunteer Florida is proud to recognize April as Florida Volunteer […]

Tag: Pasco County

Power update: 2.3 million homes and businesses still without

Power outages down to 2.7 million homes, businesses

Nearly half-million customers get power; one-third of Florida waits

As Pasco County sinkhole widens, some are determined to stay put

Area lawmakers, Dozier survivor pitch Pasco forensics lab to Rick Scott

Florida Ag commissioner: ‘No end in sight’ for wildfires

3rd Florida man guilty for burning cross in couple’s yard

Tom Jackson: In Pasco, all roads lead to Mike Fasano

Rick Scott names three new county judges

Chester W. Spellman: April is ‘Florida Volunteer Month’