A Florida Highway Patrol trooper clung to the running board of a pickup for about 600 feet on southbound Interstate 75 Thursday morning to avoid being run over. ...more

September 5, 2008

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper clung to the running board of a pickup truck for about 600 feet on Interstate 75 south this morning to avoid being run over by its driver. Trooper Anthony Horne was not injured in the incident about 3:43 a.m. Motorist Anthony Craig Cook, 35, of Riverview was charged with felony attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, the highway patrol said. ...more

September 4, 2008

A suspected drug dealer was arrested at home Wednesday by undercover deputies. ...more

July 17, 2008

A man passed out behind the wheel in a stranger's driveway was arrested on drug charges Friday morning. ...more

June 18, 2008

TAMPA A traffic stop in Collier County led investigators to discover a northern Hillsborough County marijuana grow operation, where they seized more than $850,000 in drugs, troopers say. ...more

June 6, 2008

PORT RICHEY A woman is in jail and her accomplice is wanted following a strong-arm robbery in which the woman pummeled a man with her fists to collect a drug debt, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

May 31, 2008

AVON PARK — An Avon Park man remained in Highlands County Jail without bond Friday after he was arrested on drug and traffic charges and reportedly trying to elude sheriff's deputies. Willie Lee Jones, 27, of 105 E. Wolf St., Avon Park, was booked Wednesday on charges of cocaine distribution, possession of narcotics equipment, obstruction of or resisting a law enforcement officer without violence, trafficking in opium or a derivative four grams to 30 grams and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. He was also charged with driving while driver's license suspended or revoked, criminal mischief, failure to appear on charges of knowingly driving while driver's license suspended or revoked and violation of restrictions placed on driver's license and on a charge of violation of probation for armed robbery. ...more

May 23, 2008

AVON PARK — An Avon Park woman was free on $2,000 bail Tuesday on illegal drug possession charges. Jo Ann Skipper-Hancock, 47, of 2180 U.S. 27 N., Lot No. 4, Avon Park, was charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. ...more

May 7, 2008

TAMPA - A Pinellas County man who escaped from police custody Thursday has been recaptured, Pinellas Park police say. ...more

May 2, 2008

There's no telling what could have happened if the fire on Reggie Drive reached one particular bedroom closet. ...more

February 16, 2008