Pasco County authorities have released a composite sketch of a suspect in last week's attempted armed robbery of a pharmacy and earlier assault of a 71-year-old carjacking victim. The composite is of one of two suspects in the 1 p.m. April 14 robbery attempt at the Medicine Shoppe, 10720 State Road 54, and the carjacking 35 minutes earlier outside the Ross Dress for Less store on Little Road at S.R. 54. ...more

April 23, 2009

U.S. Marshals, who had tracked a homicide suspect from the Florida Panhandle to Tampa, opened fire on the man outside a hotel this morning, after he drew a handgun on officers, authorities said. ...more

April 21, 2009

A 71-year-old woman was attacked in the parking lot of the Ross store at Little Road and State Road 54 this afternoon, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

April 14, 2009

A gunman who tried to rob a couple outside a restaurant fled when one of the victims fought back, karate chopping the would-be robber's arm, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. The gunman remains at large, despite deputies' efforts to track him with a dog, the report said. The attempted robbery happened about 9 p.m. Monday as a husband and wife, ages 59 and 58, left the Sioux City Steakhouse at 8515 Little Road, where they had just eaten dinner, the report said. As they approached their car, a man came up, holding a handgun in his left hand, and told them he was sick and wanted their wallets, the report said. ...more

April 7, 2009

Jury selection for the man accused killing a woman in a Brandon nightclub got underway today. ...more

March 30, 2009

Twenty-three families are interested in getting one of eight townhouses proposed by Highlands County Habitat for Humanity for a vacant property owned by the Community Redevelopment Agency, said Habitat's Executive Director Mike Jacobson on Monday. ...more

March 27, 2009

Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a man with stalking "Dancing With the Stars" contestant and Olympic gymnastics champion Shawn Johnson. ...more

March 26, 2009

An Avon Park man remained in jail Friday on a $105,000 bond following his arrest for allegedly robbing a delivery man at gunpoint. ...more

March 21, 2009

When 28-year-old Okeechobee resident Angel Pulido answered a knock on his front door early Wednesday afternoon, he was shot with a handgun by one of the two men who entered his residence and then demanded money and drugs from his girlfriend, authorities said. ...more

March 19, 2009

A Tampa man faces felony armed burglary charges after a home invasion in Lake Wales this morning. ...more

March 18, 2009