LAKE PLACID –– For the first time in many a moon, Lake Placid head coach Dan Coomes has a smile on his face when talking about his baseball squad. "I'm really excited to see how this team is going to perform," said the LP head coach. "We've got a good mixture of youth and experience and for the first time we have depth at every position. We haven't had this kind of depth in a long while." You would think that by the Green Dragons showing in last week's Bill Jarrett Early Bird Tournament — losing 9-2 to Lake Region and 16-0 to cross-county rival Sebring — that they've regressed somehow, but Coomes has a definite method to his madness. "You only get better by playing the high-caliber teams," Coomes said. "We have to learn to close out games and not let our mistakes cost us the game. You can't make mistakes against teams like that because that's all they need to beat you. ...more

February 25, 2008

A 26-year-old man who told deputies he was on a two-day "ice" binge and hadn't slept was arrested Sunday evening after an apparent crime spree, according to sheriff's office reports. ...more

February 12, 2008

A 30-year-old man whose body was found in a burned out pickup in this rural west Pasco County community is a homicide victim, the sheriff's office said. ...more

January 29, 2008

A 30-year-old man whose body was found 10 days ago in a burned-out pickup in this rural west Pasco County community was the victim of a homicide, according to the sheriff's office. ...more

January 28, 2008

MOON LAKE, Fla. A 29-year old man from the Spring Hill area, Jesse Lohr, has been identified by authorities as the person whose body was found Jan. 18 in a burned pickup truck in this rural area east of New Port Richey. ...more

January 28, 2008

Sheriff's detectives think they have unraveled a series of conflicting statements surrounding a Jan. 15 shooting that left a Moon Lake teen with a bullet lodged near his spine. ...more

January 25, 2008

A 35-year-old woman in the Moon Lake area was taken into custody Wednesday in connection with the recent shooting of a 16-year-old neighbor boy, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office arrest report. Christine Elaine Lightfoot, 11916 Boca Grande Ave., New Port Richey, was arrested on a felony count of aggravated battery. Her bail initially was set at $10,000. ...more

January 24, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Susan Barcellino, principal of an elementary school in Collier County, has been named principal at Moon Lake Elementary. ...more

January 24, 2008

The identity of a badly burned body found in a pickup Friday evening remains unclear. ...more

January 23, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - The Pasco County Sheriff's Office was investigating the death of a person whose body was found on a hiking trail near Lake Drive and Coronado Way on Friday evening. ...more

January 18, 2008