It's not exactly an award you'd strive to get. If it comes, however, you embrace it. ...more

May 1, 2008

A Winter Haven father was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison in the death of his 10-week-old son, who suffocated last year when the man tried to stop him from crying by stuffing his mouth with a washcloth. ...more

April 19, 2008

TAMPA -- Detectives have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the shooting death last month of 16-year-old James Holderness, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 25, 2008

You know Polk's rap. It's the county of oranges, phosphate mountains and trailer parks. It's where they spread hepatitis through meth use, once elected a white supremacist sheriff, and often find themselves in perp walks on Orlando or Tampa Bay TV. ...more

February 21, 2008

DADE CITY -- Three weeks before Timothy Scott Riggs was shot in the chest and killed outside his Clearfield, Ky. mobile home, he awoke in a Fort Lauderdale motel room to find a friend dead, his father said today. ...more

February 19, 2008

SEBRING — Details into the Avon Park attempted murder investigation for suspect Paul Dion Hamilton were released Monday by authorities. According to a probable cause narrative provided by the Avon Park Police Department, Hamilton reportedly attacked a female victim and mother of his child, age 27, on Feb. 10, with a machete after a verbal argument. ...more

February 19, 2008