Deputies arrested a Palm Harbor woman Saturday on charges she attacked a cab driver outside her home as well as a deputy and paramedic who tried to help the driver. ...more

October 26, 2008

A Babson Park woman was still in jail Tuesday on a $2,500 bond after being arrested Monday and accused of striking a police officer. ...more

October 22, 2008

BRADENTON – Three men who sold $1,100 worth of what was believed to be heroin to an undercover detective led authorities on a 45-minute pursuit Thursday night. ...more

October 18, 2008

Just before 9 p.m. Tuesday, a Pasco deputy went to Walgreens at Sunray Drive and U.S. 19 to check out a report of a "suspicious person." ...more

October 16, 2008

Just before 9 p.m. Tuesday, a Pasco deputy went to Walgreens at Sunray Drive and U.S. 19 to check out a report of a "suspicious person." What he found was a man with a large bleeding cut, saying he was in pain and needing medical attention. "I think I'm dying," the man said after admitting he had smoked crack a while earlier, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

October 15, 2008

A Bartow police officer investigating a stolen vehicle complaint early this morning shot at a suspect after the man slammed the vehicle in reverse, aiming at the lawman. The bullet, or shattered glass, cut the top of the suspect's head. He was not seriously injured. ...more

October 11, 2008

Melissa Murrhee struck her ex-roommate in the face with a wooden stake early Sunday morning, Tampa police say. When the ex-roommate got the stake out of her hand, Murrhee's boyfriend punched him, according to a police report. ...more

October 6, 2008

Reference is made to the Sept. 12 article in which the sheriff's attorney, Mike Durham, described the leader of a controversial evidence audit as "a disgruntled former employee." If Mr. Newell was a disgruntled part-time employee of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office, it is apparently the first time in his reported 34 year career as a law enforcement officer that he had been, as described, "disgruntled." ...more

September 21, 2008

Police arrested an 18-year-old Tampa man late Monday after the vehicle he was driving struck a police car on the passenger side, according to a report. ...more

September 17, 2008

Police arrested an 18-year-old Tampa man late Monday after the vehicle he was driving struck a police car on the passenger side, according to a report. ...more

September 16, 2008