With a renewed focus on finding solutions to problems facing local youth, officials are taking a closer look at some alarming statistics. ...more

October 7, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - A sawed-off shotgun used in a robbery Tuesday was found Friday about 40 yards from an elementary school's property line, the sheriff's office said. ...more

September 20, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - Deputies arrested another man in a home-invasion robbery that led to school lockdowns and a manhunt Tuesday afternoon. ...more

September 18, 2008

A grand jury has formally indicted a man accused of killing his 81-year-old mother by beating her head with a remote control and holding her underwater in the family pool. ...more

August 29, 2008

Profit, addiction fuel pill sales ...more

August 22, 2008

Youngsters say it's easier to get pills than beer. ...more

August 20, 2008

Prescription pill abuse killed three times more Floridians last year than an overdose of an illegal drug ...more

August 17, 2008

A Brooksville man wanted for allegedly shooting a man in the leg this weekend was arrested Thursday after he stabbed a woman in the finger, investigators say. ...more

August 15, 2008

A father who wanted to "teach his son to party right" was charged with third-degree murder Friday in connection with the teenager's overdose death. ...more

August 2, 2008

A former Army medic made famous by a photograph that showed him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war has died of an apparent overdose, police said. ...more

July 7, 2008