Hernando Beach brush fire is growing, moving west ...more

April 25, 2009

Police are looking for a man who tried to rob a pharmacy Thursday by saying he had in his pocket a needle filled with the AIDS virus. ...more

April 17, 2009

Thirty-four convenience and grocery store employees must appear in court after they sold alcohol to underage customers last week, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

April 15, 2009

BARTOW — A central Florida jury has recommended the death sentence for a 21-year-old man who killed a Florida Highway Patrol trooper. Sgt. Nick Sottile was fatally shot during a traffic stop near Lake Placid in 2007. Joshua Lee Altersberger pleaded guilty last month to first degree murder. ...more

April 3, 2009

Imagine being Avon Park Police Chief Matt Doughney. He's been on the job 10 months and he's watched his department come apart piece by piece, and none of it is his fault. ...more

April 1, 2009

A simmering cauldron of domestic violence involving an on-again, off-again couple and their adult children exploded this morning, leaving three people dead inside a house on a normally quiet residential street and one woman wounded, deputies said. Deputies had responded twice this month to the home at 7983 Shadow Run Drive. This morning, they arrived after someone said there was a suicidal person in the home. ...more

March 30, 2009

Two St. Petersburg police officers were justified in their use of deadly force in the Feb. 10 shooting of a woman who threatened another person with a large barbecue fork. ...more

March 26, 2009

Three people have been arrested this week on charges they enlisted men at a soup kitchen to cash fake checks at a store, St. Petersburg police say. The checks were made out to the soup kitchen patrons, as if they were the legitimate employees of a plumbing company, police say. ...more

March 26, 2009

Lakeland police are asking for the public's help in finding a man charged with attempted first-degree murder in connection with a shooting on Monday. ...more

March 18, 2009

On his first morning home from Iraq, Lt. Rusty Morris woke at dawn next to his wife, their son tucked between them. Loyal, who was just a baby when Morris deployed 15 months earlier, touched his father's face and ears as he drifted in and out of sleep. ...more

March 15, 2009