Spring Hill News

With all the rain this past week, Nick Abramsne and his four-legged friend Anna Banana haven't enjoyed the dog park at Rotary Centennial Park.

SPRING HILL Join VFW in welcoming home unit from Iraq Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10209 will host a "Welcome Home Bash" for National Guard Unit 1-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion on July 18.

Digestive problems workshop is Tuesday A free "End Digestive Problems" workshop will be offered from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Spring Hill Branch/Harold G. Zopp Memorial Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive.

Facing possible overcrowding, the HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Spring Hill is poised to expand.

A house off Applegate Drive sustained $5,000 in damage Wednesday night after an apparent lightning strike, firefighters said.

Registering students, keeping the books and serving as translator - she speaks three languages - Justa Bozman works for Brooksville's HEART Literacy adult education program.

The Florida Park Service will implement a fee increase beginning Wednesday, July 1, in conjunction with the state's fiscal calendar.

Three Lowe's employees, two of whom were managers, have been arrested and charged with stealing $70,000 worth of merchandise over a two-year period from the Brooksville store.

Dorothy Perez has wanted a Mustang since she was 14 years old. On Tuesday, the 47-year-old woman got one - for free.

The Spring Hill Garden Club is seeking volunteers to help at the Nature Coast Botanical Gardens on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday mornings.

Hernando sub fares well in Maryland races A human-powered submarine built by a team of Hernando County students finished second overall in this week's 10th Annual International Submarine Races in Bethesda, Md.

Kidnapper gets 10 years for robbing man A Hernando judge sentenced a 22-year-old to a mandatory 10 years in prison Friday for the August armed burglary, kidnapping and robbery of a Spring Hill man.

In the end, there were no arrests. There was some finger-pointing and excited shouting, but that was the limit of the drama at a protest Wednesday outside U.S. Rep.

A man with fifteen driver's license suspensions was arrested Sunday on suspicion of his fifth DUI.

Family files suit over death in head-on collision The relatives of a Brooksville woman who died from injuries sustained in a July 2008 head-on collision filed a civil lawsuit Friday.

Deputies are looking for a man who followed two boys, ages 5 and 8, in and out of the men's room at the Wal-Mart Super Center here.

"Help, help, help!" a resident screamed over the phone, "I am being eaten alive by mosquitoes on steroids!" Recent rainfalls have produced an early onslaught of blood-seeking mosquitoes.

About 3 a.m. Friday, a 2005 Ford Escape driven by Verena Wartmann, 49, of Greenwood, Ind., was heading south when it swerved across the lanes and hit the guardrail, the FHP said.

Hernando County Administrator David Hamilton will host the next in his series of budget workshops/meetings throughout the community at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at VFW Post 10209, 14736 Edward R. Noll Drive, off Anderson Snow Road, Spring Hill; and 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lorenzo Hamilton Community Center in Kennedy Park, 899 Kennedy Blvd., Brooksville.

They already have the reinforced windows. The garage door is also fortified against the worst a hurricane can offer.