The first round of trials for the men nabbed in a prostitution sting ended last week with a mixed bag of results. ...more

November 25, 2008

Lonnie Watts didn't want to go to jail, so used his car to strike one of the deputies trying to arrest him on a drug paraphernalia warrant early Friday morning, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 26, 2008

A 59-year-old man whose van ran out of gas was robbed at knifepoint by two men who offered to give him a ride to a gas station, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

September 24, 2008

Early this morning, police pulled over a 2006 Honda Ridgeline pickup at Waters and Armenia avenues because, they say, it had a broken left brake light. When the driver consented to a search, police found a baggie of cocaine that was purchased by a father for his son, police say. ...more

July 29, 2008

BE KIND REWIND ** "Be Kind Rewind," the latest fantasy from the exceedingly fertile imagination of writer-director Michel Gondry, contains a wonderful nugget of an idea that will appeal to both regular moviegoers and hardcore film geeks alike. ...more

February 21, 2008

AVON PARK — On Sept. 26, Luther Tyrone Golliday was gunned down in the parking lot of a BP gas station, located at 835 W. Memorial Blvd., in Lakeland. He was transported to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, where Golliday was pronounced dead at age 24. An Avon Park man, James Walter Blackwell III, 20, of 904 S. Florida Ave., was arrested Friday after a grand jury in Polk County indicted him on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Golliday. ...more

December 12, 2007