VENICE - Two off-duty Venice police officers were involved in an altercation at a Sarasota County bar over the weekend, and for the second time in a month the Venice Police Department is conducting an internal investigation into the conduct of its officers. ...more

January 16, 2008

Darren Hambrick's third foray into the criminal justice system ended much the same as his first two. ...more

January 14, 2008

LAKELAND - The 19th Tee is a neighborhood roadhouse bar where patrons and bartenders mingle easily and everyone knows everyone else. Owner Richard Oaks bought the place two years ago, and for him and his wife of six years, Stephanie, it was a labor of love. ...more

January 14, 2008

Pasco County deputies Tuesday continued looking into the threat of a shooting at Hudson High School. ...more

January 9, 2008

LAKE PLACID — A holiday hangover — and the lack of personnel — hit the Lake Placid girls basketball team hard on Monday night. The Avon Park Red Devils showed no mercy for the depleted Green Dragons, taking a six-point lead after the first quarter, and using superb defense to ignite their fast break, holding Lake Placid scoreless for two-plus quarters en route to a 54-8 thumping. ...more

January 9, 2008

TAMPA - A 30-year-old Hillsborough County man was arrested Saturday on charges of attempted murder after he choked and beat his ex-wife, authorities said. ...more

January 5, 2008

AVON PARK — An Avon Park New Year's Eve party reportedly erupted into violence early Tuesday morning between an Avon Park family, two others and police officers responding to a complaint, leading to the arrest of five people. Richard Mendez, 47, of Avon Park, was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence. He was later charged with corruption by threat against a law enforcement officer. ...more

January 3, 2008

A state panel voted unanimously not to keep embattled medical examiner Charles Siebert on the job Saturday, saying he hadn't complied with an order to have an independent review of his work. ...more

December 30, 2007

For nearly a decade Kevin Doll has been speaking on behalf of Pasco County sheriffs. But he was silenced - perhaps only temporarily - as an agency spokesman when he was ordered to appear in court in a domestic battery case. ...more

December 11, 2007

Jessica Sierra blamed four or five vodkas and an empty stomach. Before her weekend tear in Ybor City was over, Tampa police said, Sierra fought police trying to keep her out of a club, scrapped with a friend on the street outside, vomited in a patrol car then vomited again, threatened action by the mayor, kicked one officer and propositioned another, and, still combative, ended up in isolation at Orient Road Jail. ...more

December 4, 2007