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Byline: ROBERT KING On the day Hurricane Charley was to make landfall in Florida, there were roughly 14,500 mobile homes in Hernando County that appeared to lie in its path. [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING There is no easy way to say goodbye other than to say it. After six very satisfying years with the Times - the past two writing this [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The huge Chinook helicopter arrived Thursday at Charlotte County Airport, only to find the runway jammed with semitrailer trucks hauling tons of goods for Hurricane Charley victims. [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Nathan Friedman sat next to his wife and stroked her hair as she slept on a stretcher in the West Hernando Middle School cafeteria. A hundred miles [...]

Byline: JENNIFER LIBERTO; ROBERT KING The last time the Weeki Wachee River rose and claimed Clara Wright's quaint little log cabin home, she took a ride on a refrigerator. Not [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The sheriff, the prosecutor, the judge and the jail warden sat around a table last week to discuss an unlikely topic: how they can avoid putting bad [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Have you heard the rumor that Six Flags is going to build a theme park in Hernando County? Have you also heard that the new Six Flags [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Have you heard the rumor that Six Flags is going to build a theme park in Hernando County? Have you also heard that the new Six Flags [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING A Spring Hill woman has been charged with neglect after her children - ages 8 and 9 - started a small fire while she was at work [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Spring Hill resident Rick Jordan asked county commissioners Tuesday to address problems within the Spring Hill Fire Rescue District, and pointed specifically to what he sees as [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Marcia Porter wanted a convertible. So Wendell Johnson, her best friend and longtime companion, went to work to build her one. Using the materials he had available [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Rick Jordan, a Vietnam veteran disabled after his exposure to Agent Orange, nearly blew a gasket when he saw a recent letter to the editor from a [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING A Timber Pines couple who took in their grandson to keep him from entering foster care has agreed to find a new address rather than mount a [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING (ran East edition of Pasco Times) Marcia Porter wanted a convertible. So Wendell Johnson, her best friend and longtime companion, went to work to build her one. [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Marcia Porter wanted a convertible. So Wendell Johnson, her best friend and longtime companion, went to work to build her one. Using the materials he had available [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING As a woman who likes to hear all sides of a story, Brookridge resident Therese Figg is eager to see Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's critical take on [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The story of Carlee Horan's death is told right where it happened. The skid marks can be seen in the grass on the shoulder. A traffic sign [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The story of Carlee Horan's death is told right where it happened. The skid marks can be seen in the grass on the shoulder. A traffic sign [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING George Biro says the nearly 23 years he spent working for Spring Hill Fire Rescue should be an asset as he joins the department's fire board this [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING For three weeks, 16-year-old Carlee Horan had been struggling to come to terms with the death of her best friend and Hernando High classmate Tommy Gaulin. The [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING For three weeks, 16-year-old Carlee Horan had been struggling to come to terms with the death of her best friend and Hernando High classmate Tommy Gaulin. The [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The decision by three Spring Hill Fire Rescue Commission members not to seek re-election this fall means the board will lose its chairman, its most independent thinker [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The Rev. Robin Murray had preached his last sermon and worked his last day as rector at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, a position he had held for [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Happy Independence Day. The Fourth of July happens to fall on a weekend this year. And many folks, including myself, are using this blessed three-day weekend as [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Authorities began searching Thursday for the Hernando County couple accused of abusing a 10-year-old girl and suggested they might be trying to meet up with their four [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Authorities are searching for the four sons of Lori and Arthur Allain, the Hernando County couple accused of abuse and neglect in the case of a malnourished [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The two children never really knew their fathers. Their mother set fire to their home, left them home alone and 'scared them to death'' while driving drunk. [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING As new allegations surfaced Friday, the Hernando County couple accused of abusing and neglecting a severely malnourished girl agreed to live apart from their four sons. Arthur [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The Spring Hill Fire District will offer its taxpayers something they have never received before: a cut in their property tax rate. Fire commissioners approved a tax [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING; CURTIS KRUEGER By one account, the home of Arthur and Lori Allain was a safe environment, and the two troubled kids who landed there were 'lucky'' to [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING; DUANE BOURNE; CURTIS KRUEGER A Department of Children and Families attorney told a judge Monday that a malnourished 10-year-old girl was 'at risk of imminent death,'' even [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING; DUANE BOURNE; CURTIS KRUEGER A Department of Children and Families attorney told a judge Monday that a malnourished 10-year-old girl was 'at risk of imminent death,'' even [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Two years ago, the discussion in Spring Hill concerned whether the local fire rescue district should gain its independence, severing its ties with Hernando County. How things [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Arthur and Lori Allain say the girl they are accused of keeping locked up and deprived of food came to them four years ago weighing 22 pounds, [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING (ran East edition of Pasco Times) Father (fa-ther). n. A male parent. The dictionary makes it seem so simple. But has there ever been a job that [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING School superintendent Wendy Tellone received a one-year contract extension Tuesday night, but the School Board's vote wasn't unanimous and it came with the lowest performance rating in [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING A decorated Vietnam War veteran was killed early Friday morning after being struck by two cars while he was walking on U.S. 19, the Florida Highway Patrol [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING By now you have heard all the grown-ups talk about Ronald Reagan. Would you indulge me for a minute as I share a few thoughts on what [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Spring Hill fire officials say the little guys - people whose homes assessed at $71,000 or less - will wind up paying more if their district switched [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Before the Spring Hill Fire Commissioners named J.J. Morrison chief two years ago, they had a lengthy discussion about the fact that Morrison didn't have a four-year [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING The year is 2020. Hernando County's population is 300,000 - more than twice its current size. Here is a 2020 vision of what the news might look [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING (ran East edition) It is midmorning when a man with mutton chop sideburns and blue suede shoes comes to the door of a country home tucked away [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Small sparks can sometimes lead to big fires. And so it may be with the Spring Hill Fire Rescue District, which faces a petition drive seeking its [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING It is midmorning when a man with mutton chop sideburns and blue suede shoes comes to the door of a country home tucked away in the remote [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING As she glides through the aisles of a Wal-Mart Supercenter, Elizabeth Shuayb's white head scarf and ankle-length black robe seem to announce her Muslim faith. Yet as [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING My education in the ways of Hernando County's Muslim community began at the front door of their mosque. By the pile of shoes left on the floor [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Trying to squelch an insurrection, Spring Hill fire commissioners have agreed to at least hear the arguments for consolidating their department with Hernando County's and look at [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Spring Hill Fire Rescue commissioner Richard Martin says he is now convinced the time is right to merge Spring Hill's fire service with Hernando County's - even [...]

Byline: ROBERT KING Family members: Rashid, 31; Fe, 24; Charlston, 7; and Aishah, 23 months. Native countries: Rashid is a native Floridian; Fe is originally from the Philippines. Occupations: Rashid [...]