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Articles from the November 7, 2022 edition


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  • Woman Claims she Forged Hundreds Crime Victim's Signatures for Nonprofit to "profit" – Part of a Much Bigger Scam

    Tom Lemons|Updated Jun 9, 2023
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    HERNANDO – A Spring Hill woman says she and a former co-worker were told to forge the signatures of hundreds of women, in an effort to obtain thousands in federal aid that is supposed to go to victims of domestic violence. Between 2019 and 2020, Lisa Deitsch and Joseph Burgos worked as domestic violence advocates at Dawn Center, a shelter for abused women. Last year, Deitsch contacted this reporter and offered to "blow the whistle" on the shelter, after witnessing horrific c...

  • Zephyrhills Man Faces Decades Behind Bars for Possessing Explosive Material

    Tom Lemons|Updated Jan 3, 2023

    PASCO – A Zephyrhills man is charged in connection with a making and distributing explosive materials and could face multiple years behind bars. In a statement released by the U.S. State Attorney's Office, on November 1 and 2, 2022, 34-year-old John James Hall conducted telephone communications with a man to whom he had sold firearms in the past. In these conversations Hall offered to sell the man a "pipe bomb" that Hall had built. Hall shared with the man that he had c...

  • One Dead in Deputy Involved Shooting, Next Door to State Senator's Home

    Tom Lemons|Updated Jan 3, 2023
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    SPRING HILL – Investigators with the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement are on the scene of a deputy involved shooting at a residence on Feather Street. According to officials, deputies responded to 12480 Feather Street around 2:40 a.m. this morning to serve a felony warrant on 61-year-old Gary Jean Schryver. When deputies attempted to make contact with the suspect at the residence, shots were fired, and the suspect suffered a fatal gun...

  • Hernando County: Update on Tropical Storm Nicole

    Tom Lemons|Updated Nov 19, 2022

    HERNANDO – According to Hernando County Emergency Management officials, all government offices, including schools will be closed for the remainder of the week. Here is a statement from officials: Tropical Storm Nicole Update (Brooksville, FL) - In preparation for impacts from Tropical Storm Nicole, Hernando County Government offices will be closed Thursday, November 10th and will remained closed Friday, November 11th for Veterans Day. There will be no trash pick-up on T...