A trailer park fight that sent two to jail is the likely winner of 2008's first arrest. ...more

January 4, 2008

A trailer park fight that sent two to jail is the likely winner of 2008's first arrest. ...more

January 3, 2008

So you really think $75 per month county combat pay for our warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan is a "wonderful gesture." Maybe you (and the commissioners) should rethink the idea. It is perhaps a noble thought but one that is very apt to get bogged down in bureaucratic red tape which will surely spoil the original purpose. For one thing, you say it will go only to those "on the front lines every day." Does that mean a wounded soldier evacuated to the rear for a week of medical treatment loses his stipend for that month? How would any soldier establish that he/she was on the front lines every day? Worse, in lands where suicide bombers and IEDs abound, where are the front lines? Someone driving a fuel truck to an isolated helicopter base may be in a lot more danger than someone patrolling a pacified neighborhood. ...more

December 30, 2007

TAMPA — Suze Merzier thought that as she and her boyfriend of five years were separating, he was moving out items that belonged to both of them, Tampa police say. ...more

December 13, 2007

BARTOW - A Lakeland man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl is competent enough to choose to refuse jailhouse medical treatment, a Polk County circuit judge ruled Wednesday afternoon. ...more

December 6, 2007

BARTOW - A Lakeland man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl is competent enough to choose to refuse jailhouse medical treatment, a Polk County circuit judge ruled this afternoon. ...more

December 5, 2007

TAMPA - John Graziano, the 22-year-old who was injured in a car crash involving wrestler Hulk Hogan's son, was moved to James A. Haley VA Medical Center on Thursday, according to his lawyer, George Tragos. ...more

November 8, 2007

POINCIANA - Authorities have refined the description of a girl or young woman detectives say was killed and found burned in extreme northeast Polk County. ...more

November 7, 2007

My heart truly goes out to Ginette Carpenter and her daughters. Her story is so much like mine, only the name is different and I have no minor children. ...more

October 25, 2007

As a Korean War veteran, Bud Collins gets most of his medical treatment at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center. ...more

October 13, 2007