Veterans honor their comrades' sacrifices [Times photo: Janel Schroeder] LAND O'LAKES -- One flag. Remembering the fallen ones With prayer, song and speeches, soldiers pay their respects to those comrades who never made it home.

Pasco woman is paralyzed by dive into shallow pool WESLEY CHAPEL -- A 31-year-old Wesley Chapel woman was paralyzed Sunday evening in a diving accident, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. Pasco teams hit the road on Odyssey of the Mind Kids, parents, and the creative paraphernalia for this intellectual competition set out seeking a world championship.

Burglars leave their mark on tattoo and piercing shop
Burglars stole $5,800 in specialized equipment from Ink Heaven days before its grand opening.

Pasco is paying for the water in Pinellas and Hillsborough
Editor: I'm a Pasco County resident and have recently had my well dry up. I've read all of your stories regarding this serious situation and have tried to conserve as much as possible. I, too, live in a neighborhood that has one watering offender who seems to think that his grass is more important than having drinking water. Of course, he is not the one with a dry well, I am.

Sometimes sweating the small stuff is all we have
There is a national best-selling book that urges us all not to sweat the small stuff, yet sometimes in our daily lives that, fortunately, is the only thing we do have to concern ourselves about.

County jail inmates charged in beating
LAND O'LAKES -- Four inmates at the Pasco County Jail were charged Sunday night with beating up another inmate, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported.

Volunteers to fix up Crescent Theater
DADE CITY -- Supporters of the Crescent Theater renovation are planning take the first steps toward rehabilitating the old structure Saturday with a volunteer-powered effort to clean up the property.

Coach expects lots of smiles at golf, tennis camp
DADE CITY -- Janet Wing said her idea for a new summer camp in east Pasco came out of her own back yard, the same back yard where international tennis star Jim Courier grew up.

It's official: Mitchell joins SAC
NEW PORT RICHEY -- It was probably one of the most anti-climatic votes in the Sunshine Athletic Conference's nine-year history.

NEW SAC SOFTBALL ALIGNMENT
Because the SAC recently expanded to nine teams with the addition of Wesley Chapel last year and Mitchell this year, the softball coaches voted to split the conference into two divisions for purposes of determining the winner of the conference crown.

Ridgewood star to walk-on at Florida State
NEW PORT RICHEY -- Eric Dieters could have taken a full-ride somewhere else. He could have accepted a scholarship to run at Embry Riddle or Florida Southern.