Art Waskey has pedaled hundreds of miles to honor people he will never meet. ...more

March 7, 2009

A Largo man has been sentenced to 15 years and six months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography, officials said today. ...more

March 6, 2009

When a man walking through Tampa Housing Authority property saw uniformed officers nearby Monday night, he ran off and tried hiding by illegally entering the home of a person he didn't know, police say. Officers later determined the man, Jonathan Lee Stealey, had an active arrest warrant for violating probation of resisting arrest with violence. ...more

March 5, 2009

A 21-year-old St Petersburg woman argued with a Spirit Airlines flight crew member, punched a person in the nose and battered three law enforcement officers Monday, Tampa International Airport police say. ...more

March 3, 2009

Authorities say a man running late for a flight flashed a fake police badge to airline workers and claimed to be an air marshal so they would let him through the gate. ...more

February 26, 2009

Authorities say a distraught St. Petersburg man threw a grenade at two officers in hopes of being shot by police. ...more

February 22, 2009

Polk County detectives said a Winter Haven man presented himself to people as a law enforcement officer, searched them, took their money and sprayed them with pepper spray. ...more

February 20, 2009

A man who caused a disturbance on a Delta flight from New York City to Tampa on Thursday was arrested after he scuffled at the gate with Tampa International Airport police, according to an affidavit. Robert M. Waugh, 32, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who told authorities he was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, was charged with four counts of battery on a law enforcement officer and disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest. He remained in the Orient Road Jail this morning. Bail was set at $10,250. ...more

February 20, 2009

Pinellas County deputies arrested a man they say was caught in a sting Wednesday when he traveled from Oklahoma to Florida to meet two underage girls for sex. ...more

February 19, 2009

If you believe pedestrians have the right of way, you are not only wrong, you could be dead wrong. ...more

February 18, 2009