A nurse at the Hernando County Jail was arrested Friday on allegations he was trafficking prescription drugs and giving them to an inmate. ...more

October 23, 2009

A 48-year-old Treasure Island man who spent much of Sunday drinking and watching football was found floating face down in a hot tub and is believed to have drowned, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says. Charles Higgins was found in the tub at 6760 W. Flamingo Way S. in South Pasadena just before midnight Sunday. Three men are roommates at the house, the sheriff's office said. ...more

October 12, 2009

Police say a Georgia man came to Tampa to buy guns he planned to use to kill his ex-wife's boyfriend. ...more

July 9, 2009

A homeless man accused of raping an acquaintance in a Sarasota park has been arrested. A Sarasota police officer spotted Ulices Serrano, 27, near 10th Street and Orange Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, ordered him to stop and found a steak knife in his jeans pocket, according to the arrest report. ...more

May 7, 2009

Trial began Monday for a man accused of holding an acquaintance captive and forcing her to commit sex acts over 14 hours. ...more

May 5, 2009

There were several friends who commented somewhat favorable about last week's column regarding our country's financial state and what I surmised was causing the problem. One fellow found an error and wrote me an e-mail on the story about a couple who could not pronounce the name of the town they were in and asked the employee of a Burger King to pronounce the name of where they were very slowly Burrrrrr, gerrrrrr, Kiiiing. ...more

April 2, 2009

Authorities say a Bradenton woman stabbed an acquaintance from church and then chased another woman with the knife during an argument Monday evening. ...more

March 31, 2009

Taina Lopez feels as if no one listened to her. ...more

March 27, 2009

Police say they have arrested one of two masked men involved in a home invasion this morning in which one person was shot and another pistol-whipped. ...more

March 18, 2009

Police are searching for two masked men involved in a home invasion this morning in which one person was shot and another pistol-whipped, according to public safety spokeswoman Elizabeth Watts. ...more

March 18, 2009