The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating a kidnapping that ended when the victim grabbed a handgun and shoot two of his three abductors. ...more

September 8, 2008

An armed robbery led to a police chase and a deadly crash, Tampa police say. ...more

September 8, 2008

First, deputies say, Gary Eugene Adams and another man tried to kidnap and rape a woman they found walking along a road. ...more

September 5, 2008

First, deputies say, Gary Eugene Adams and another man tried to kidnap and rape a woman they found walking along a road. After the woman escaped, Adams tried to run down a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputy who tried to stop him, and then he sped away, running red lights and crossing into oncoming lanes, according to the sheriff's office. ...more

September 4, 2008

A 15-year-old Sebring High School boy was in the care of the Department of Juvenile Justice on Friday after sheriff's investigators say he was caught in school with marijuana for distribution and then escaped out of the D.A.R.E. van and was recaptured. ...more

August 30, 2008

Richie Dellasso has had it up to here with the property across the street from his house. ...more

August 22, 2008

Code Enforcement officials have more cash to tackle the overgrown lawns of vacant homes, but they have a request for frustrated neighbors: Be patient. ...more

August 22, 2008

Clay and Becky Halbert of North Port planned to have a midwife deliver their son at a Sarasota medical center. Things did not go according to plan. ...more

August 18, 2008

A Miami man was free Monday on $6,500 bail after being arrested during a traffic stop in which he was a passenger, and being charged as a convicted felon in possession of a gun. ...more

August 12, 2008

Librarian Mary Myers wants those overdue library books back. And county commissioners agreed with the library system director, although there will not be an "amnesty program" anytime soon. ...more

August 7, 2008