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A school bus driver was fatally stabbed in front of students after picking them up from a Washington state elementary school Friday afternoon, authorities said. The alleged killer, who is now in custody, got on the bus near Longfellow Elementary in the city of Pasco around 3 p.m. and launched the knife attack as multiple children watched in horror, according to police. The victim lost control of the vehicle and crashed it near the school building, police said. The unidentified driver was pronounced dead a hospital. No children were physically injured in the attack or crash. The suspect’s name has...

PASCO, WA A Pasco union leader’s controversial comments linking “reopen everything” movements with white privilege have set off calls for people to leave the union. Pasco Association of Educators President Scott Wilson’s two-minute statement at the Jan. 12 school board meeting linked “free to breathe” and “free to reopen everything” rodeos and rallies with a “culture of white supremacy and white privilege.” The comments from the white middle school teacher have raised the ire of dozens of people upset about the comparison, and led to a letter circulating on Facebook calling for members to opt out of the teachers union.

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) -- A Florida woman will spend more than four years in federal prison for cyberstalking, harassing and threatening six of her former colleagues. Between August 2016 and July 2018, Tammy Marie Steffen of Holiday, Fla. created at least 369 Instagram accounts and 18 email accounts to plague her former colleagues with emails and messages, as well as using several phones numbers to send text messages and make phone calls. The 37-year-old woman even used voice-disguising software to mask her identity when she repeatedly called the victims at their homes and businesses. Some messages Steffen sent included threats...

With Hepatitis A cases skyrocketing across Florida, reported cases among food workers are also on a steep rise. That’s creating a real public health issue, as ingesting the virus through food or water is the easiest way to contract it. Yet the DOH chooses not to notify the public of some food worker cases, according to a spokesperson, as the agency weighs the risk to patrons against the risk of a public health scare. In the case of this grocery store employee last week, who was hospitalized after symptoms worsened over the course of several days, the DOH determined there...

The alleged abuse happened during nap time, documents from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office show. The details of the case are so disturbing and so unthinkable, that those who hear the facts have a visceral reaction. They wince. They make faces. Some look down and sigh.

Students in Michelle Wheland's class at Badger Mountain Elementary in Richland, work Tuesday using lanterns and flashlights. Students found the power out when they got to school but teachers and staff made the best of it. Some classes met in hallways to read and do projects while others used whatever source of light they could find.

PORT RICHEY — Debra Jackson was tired of a neighbor's dog defecating in her yard, authorities say. So when she saw the dog and his owner Wednesday afternoon, she grabbed her shotgun. "I'm having a bad day," said Jackson, 50, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. "I'm gonna shoot you and that dog."

Pasco detention deputies give union the boot By Times Staff Writer Published Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:44 PM LAND O'LAKES Detention deputies give union the boot Pasco County detention deputies voted 132-62 to decertify the bargaining unit that has been representing them in contract negotiations with Sheriff Bob White. In balloting Tuesday and Wednesday, the jail's sworn deputies overwhelmingly voted out the Fraternal Order of Police, less than two years after voting to unionize. The union had yet to finalize a labor contract. Although not at an official impasse with White, it had been stalled in contract talks over the...

Former U.S. Rep. Richard Kelly died Monday night in Stevensville, Mont., where he lived for almost 20 years in a sort of self-imposed exile after his 1981 Abscam bribery conviction. Mr. Kelly, 81, was one of seven members of Congress snared in Abscam, an elaborate sting involving undercover FBI agents posing as aides to Arab sheiks seeking favors from Congress. Mr. Kelly contended he was conducting his own investigation of "suspicious characters" who surrounded him. Before he was elected to Congress in 1974, Mr. Kelly spent 14 years as a circuit judge in Pasco and Pinellas counties. He developed a...

Bias against Southerners misses the mark By RICHARD COX Published July 11, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does prejudice exist in Pasco County, an area with a very diverse population and seemingly very progressive? I am certain that African-Americans, Hispanics and people from other countries, the poor and homeless, as well as members of certain religious faiths, experience treatment different from the mainstream populace. However, I am a member of a minority who has experienced attitudes and reactions from many individuals who assume that I am intellectually and socially challenged. A very large percentage of the population of New Port Richey in particular...

Friday, March 25, 2005 10:57 p.m. EST Greer Got Donation From Mike Schiavo's Lawyer Reclaiming America, an organization backed by Rev. D. James Kennedy, reported that a serious conflict of interest may exist for the Fla. State Judge who is ruling on the Terri Schiavo case. The report from Reclaiming America follows: As if the circumstances surrounding Terri Schiavo could not get any more suspicious, the Center for Reclaiming America has uncovered evidence that Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Judge George W. Greer accepted a campaign contribution from the law firm of Michael Schiavo’s attorney only one day after "Terri’s Law” was...

County officials in Florida reversed a decision that banned display of Christmas trees in public facilities, including libraries, recreation centers and community centers. Christmas tree at Arkansas public library Pasco County, north of Tampa, made the reversal 24 hours after the American Center for Law and Justice sent a letter [pdf filed] to officials. "We are pleased that the county admitted its mistake and reversed its legally flawed decision removing Christmas trees from county facilities," said ACLJ chief counsel Jay Sekulow. "The law is very clear about this issue -- the display of Christmas trees is constitutional and the county...

Election 2004 Bush based hunch on Pasco Gov. Jeb Bush predicted his brother would win Florida after seeing early returns from the county. By LUCY MORGAN, Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief Published November 4, 2004 TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush said he knew his brother was going to win Florida on Tuesday night just as soon as he saw election returns from Pasco County. "The two counties I look at - thankfully they are ones that come in early - are Pasco and Orange," Bush told reporters Wednesday just minutes after learning that U.S. Sen. John Kerry was conceding defeat in...

Those blue hairs believed the endorsement sent out by the Pinelas GOP HQ endorsing the bungler, george greer. I cannot capitalize his name - don't make me. I BLAME THE PINELLAS GOP HQ and HOW DOES ONE MAN OWN THIS COUNTY who should not have won. He often says "I dunno" and I believe him when he says that. Stupid people are going to cost Terri dearly. They have no idea that their vote ENDORSED STARVATION. STARVATION IS MURDER.

Judge George Greer was unelected the first time around... Then he was unopposed until now. It's been twelve long years and it's time for a change in Pinellas-Pasco County, Sixth Circuit Courts. Sometimes the establishment incumbent such as Judge Greer, wears out their welcome.