Pasco County Sheriff Bob White announced this morning he is disbanding the agency's air unit to cut annual operational costs by $600,000, much of which will be reallocated to put more patrol deputies on the streets. The department will return its four helicopters to the federal government surplus program that provided them and will advertise its airplane for sale on the Internet, he said. ...more

March 5, 2009

A Brooksville man faces 35 rape charges after multiple sexual encounters that left a teenage girl pregnant. ...more

February 18, 2009

Monica Caison figured it was worth a shot, so she wrote a letter, one paragraph, to the man on death row for kidnapping and killing Alice Donovan during a two-week, 2,300-mile crime spree. ...more

February 1, 2009

Polk County deputies say they have located an 11-year-old Lakeland boy previously reported missing. The boy was unharmed. ...more

January 30, 2009

A Sarasota fund principal who vanished this week was last heard from Wednesday afternoon when he called his stepson to retrieve a note he had left at home, said the Sarasota County Sheriff's spokesman. ...more

January 17, 2009

Local law enforcement is feeling the effect of a sharp drop in federal grant money. ...more

September 28, 2008

The third edition of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's cold-case playing cards will be unveiled Friday morning. The cold-case decks, which feature real playing cards, were first used in state prisons in July 2007 to solve homicide and missing persons cases. ...more

August 28, 2008

TAMPA - Additional searches spurred by the discovery of a human skull in Tampa Bay continued through Saturday evening with no clear answers. ...more

June 29, 2008

The body was found among the short trees and prickly underbrush that border a desolate stretch of dirt road. ...more

June 13, 2008

The body was found among the short trees and prickly underbrush that border a desolate stretch of dirt road. ...more

June 12, 2008