New Port Richey News

More than 12,000 policy holders have sued the company in an effort to get their outstanding claims paid and, new data shows, the defense costs are rising — with the company billed more than $21 million for the last three months of 2013 alone.

A body was found by hikers Sunday in Werner Boyce State Park in New Port Richey.

The MTA wasn't the only pension provider that made an error resulting in big losses to Shirley Findel, a Long Island Rail Road engineer's widow who recently learned she's on the hook for nearly $27,000 due to the agency's 18 years of mistaken overpayments to her late husband's pension.

If you've seen me out and about in the past 12 years - theater, concert, restaurant, even the grocery store - you've seen her, too, all 85 pounds , 5 feet tall, impeccably dressed, my mom, Peggy LeBaron.

Crystal York inspects a set of tiny sneakers beside a cash register at Stellie Bellies.

The Tampa Tribune is reporting today that CBS' crime show '48 Hours' will air the cold case disappearance of Amy Hurst and Wendy Huggy.

When deputies executed a search warrant at the home of a man accused of having 337 images of child pornography, they found him still lying in bed.

When city council member Terry Rowe looked at the water in his toilet tank last month he was thoroughly disgusted.

After a New Port Richey church van blew a tire and flipped over killing two of its passengers last month, 10 News asked local churches and non-profits what they are doing to protect their passengers.

John Dubois' artistic and mechanical genius is best appreciated when you see the "before'' pictures of the junked 1960 Chevrolet El Camino he rescued from the Arizona desert.

The National Transportation Safety Board released their report on the accident that took the lives of two members of the First Baptist Church of New Port Richey last month.

O. J. Brisky hated his first name, but he loved books, old dusty books, books with a little mildew or history hidden among the pages.

Federal safety officials are investigating a fatal church van crash in north Florida that involved the catastrophic failure of a tire that was part of a July 2012 recall.

Shelly Johnson was first arrested in early February after deputies say they caught her and her boyfriend stealing personal information from mailboxes and using it to commit fraud.

Between Feb. 3 and Feb. 6, detectives tracked Clarence Dingler sharing more than 150 files "of investigative interest" online, a Pasco sheriff's report states.

Rea Sieber wins seat 2 on the Tarpon Springs Commission. Voters say yes to the city's sale of surplus property.

House Bill 703 is not a popular bill in some South Florida counties. But in Martin County, where agricultural interests are akin to estuary green slime, the ruling class puts the bill in a special category of disrepute.

Many of the local fraternities have some great food, and you don't always have to be a member to go.

Shirley Findel lives in a two-bedrom house in Gulf Harbors that her husband, Harry, inherited from his father.

Before daybreak on a Saturday in late November, police reports say, a Pasco County detention deputy got into a scuffle with his estranged girlfriend.