The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate is 40 years his junior. ...more

November 5, 2009

Angelique Orihuela Ayison was so mad at her estranged husband that she unexpectedly arrived at his home Wednesday and attacked him, eventually stabbing him in the groin with broken glass, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office. ...more

September 4, 2009

An argument between two young brothers reportedly escalated into a fight involving a rake, a stick and a kitchen knife and ended with their arrest for assault and battery. ...more

June 22, 2009

A convicted murderer's life sentence was reduced to 10 years on Thursday. ...more

December 24, 2008

Some Bucs players hit the hotel fitness center Monday. Some hit the "play" buttons on their portable DVD machines. ...more

December 9, 2008

The days separating us from this cycle's The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes have dwindled to a precious handful. Accordingly, opinions have begun to congeal as voters have grown serious. ...more

October 10, 2008

It shocks me to read about another incident at the sheriff's office so soon after the accident incident a few months back. It appears to me that it is another cover-up in the sheriff's department; the "blue wall is up." ...more

October 10, 2008

A high school government teacher has won another court order delaying pat-down body searches at Raymond James Stadium. ...more

September 16, 2008

Because I have spent a better part of my life hanging around the hustings as a scribbler, there have been times when I have deluded myself into thinking that, in another life, I would have made a pretty fair-to-middling political consultant. ...more

September 2, 2008

BRADENTON – A local man who was asked to pick up beer cans in his yard so it could be mowed became angry and waved a samurai sword at another man in his front yard, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 15, 2008