New Port Richey News

Principal at Deer Park to retire Jan. 6 John Shafchuk, who first joined the Pasco County school district in 1975, is about to serve his final day here.

In 1997, Donald B. Hancock was convicted of DUI manslaughter for an accident that killed his wife, Irene, the previous year.

A public defender says 26-year-old Jessica V. Warren was found dead in her bathroom the morning of Oct.

Dumpster diving leads to chase, theft charges A police officer saw a teenager digging through a Dumpster behind CenturyLink on Meridian Avenue in Dade City Thursday night and, when approached, the teen split, scaling an 8-foot fence rimmed with barbed wire.

An ABC Action News investigation has uncovered a blatant violation of "The Stolen Valor Act of 2005," the federal law that makes it illegal for anyone to fraudulently claim to have earned a medal of valor in military service to the nation.

According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Trevor P. Dudley, who lives at 21755 Ocean Pines Drive, and two juveniles beat the 14-year-old at a park in the Ballantrae community on the morning of Oct.

He was her best friend, he was her family. And he never left her side. When Connie Bartels first met Harley, a 7-pound Yorkshire terrier, he had been rescued from an abusive home by her friend.

Photo: Andrea Butera Since Tropical Storm Ida pretty much passed by Tampa all together, I decided to drive up to New Port Richey to see what kind of weather pictures I could snap.

New school needs a name; got an idea? When the Pasco County School District put out a call for ideas to name its newest elementary school in Odessa, leaders hoped to receive more suggestions than they had fingers.

Each Thanksgiving season, a few unlucky Americans manage to burn down their houses trying to deep fry a turkey.

Elderly woman found dead in swimming pool Authorities are investigating the death of an elderly woman found in a backyard swimming pool Thursday afternoon.

William Dennis Cheatley Jr., 34, of 4229 Athens Ave. in New Port Richey, had 14 marijuana plants, loose marijuana, grow equipment that included lights and transformers, pipes and scales, deputies said.

Deputies are investigating a fatal stabbing at an apartment complex on Trouble Creek Road in New Port Richey.

Willard Clark, ex-Richey Suncoast Theatre president, died in 1981, but his ghost is said to linger at his favorite seat, BB1.

Right at Home , an assistance agency that provides in-home care for seniors and disabled adults who want to continue to live independently, has opened a new office at 6630 Rowan Road, New Port Richey.

The stated public support for extending New Port Richey's ordinance allowing alcohol sales at special events downtown has been nearly unanimous.

Woman arrested on drug, fleeing charges A 42-year-old New Port Richey woman was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia and fleeing to elude after authorities say she fled during a traffic stop.

A jury on Wednesday convicted a New Port Richey man of raping a woman who didn't live to tell her story in court.

Woman pleads guilty to mail, wire fraud Rosa Barrett Herrera, owner of Covenant Construction Unlimited in New Port Richey, has pleaded guilty in federal court to wire and mail fraud in a scheme in which authorities say she billed an invoice company for work her firm never performed.

A woman fatally stabbed a man in the chest tonight, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said.