New Port Richey News

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.

Since 2012, the city of New Port Richey has charged the Pasco County school district streetlight fee assessments that district officials say they shouldn't have to pay.

After a stormy morning and early afternoon, the sky begins to clear Thursday over Clearwater Beach, drawing out a few visitors.

Shelter officials at the SPCA Suncoast in New Port Richey have indicated that the shelter has found itself in financial crisis and may be on the verge of closing its adoption center.

Like Paul Ryan, Will Weatherford is a Ayn Rand devotee . Weatherford has been against Medicaid expansion in Florida.

A van carrying 10 people from First Baptist Church in New Port Richey crashed on I-75 near Lake City on Feb. 21, killing two adults and leaving several youth injured, according to Sgt.

"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me.

Shirley Findel, with her husband Harry Findel, a retired LIRR engineer. Mr. Findel died in Florida at age 83. Soon after, his widow learned she had to repay pension money to the MTA.

With one of the many great features of this town being that many areas are coastal and set right along the Gulf of Mexico, New Port Richey provides its residents with many diverse types of real estate.

To place a Death Notice, please call 305-376-8901 or email obit@miamiherald.com .

The woman was asleep in her bed Sunday afternoon when, police say, John Michael Wolfe walked in through her apartment's unlocked door.

A "closed'' sign hangs on the front door of John Munty's appliance repair shop in the heart of New Port Richey.

Domenic Crisafulli ran up Oak Ridge Avenue still in his clothes from track practice.

Musunuru, who lives in New Port Richey, was reappointed by Gov. Rick Scott , according to a statement from the governor's office.

Survivors include a son, James P. O'Neil of Hodges, S.C.; daughters, Carol Padgitt of Hudson, Fla., Linda Weingart of Leesburg, Fla., and Marcy Erickson of New Port Richey; 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Men who have seen and suffered the horrors of combat steel themselves each day for a job some find just as wrenching: fighting child sex crimes back home.