TAMPA What drives someone to sleep in a tent outside an electronics store for two days? You could say "bargains," but you'd be only half right. The people camped outside the Best Buy store on North Dale Mabry Highway said they were celebrating Thanksgiving in a fun, if non-traditional, way. ...more

November 26, 2009

A Sebring woman was arrested Monday on a warrant alleging she took tens of thousands of dollars from an elderly woman's accounts while acting as her power of attorney. ...more

November 26, 2009

Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen Pageant is coming to Dade City next year. The pageant is expected to draw hundreds of people to the area when the contest opens April 23. ...more

November 7, 2009

"Is he gonna turn the switch, or what's he gonna do?" At 9 a.m. Tuesday, the five men in the coffee clatch at McDonald's were manning their usual stations. None planned to go to the Turner Center, where the president's helicopter was supposed to meet a motorcade of a dozen black Suburbans, white government SUVs and local police cars. ...more

October 28, 2009

Local teenager Shawnee Lester, 17, has been selected to represent Florida at the 2009 Miss American Teen Pageant. ...more

October 15, 2009

Add the Brandon Auto Mall to the list of car dealers closing in the Bay area. ...more

October 1, 2009

Polk County sheriff's deputies are seeking help figuring out who stole thousands of dollars worth of farm equipment two weeks ago. ...more

September 18, 2009

The Avon Park Police Department took a teenager into custody Aug. 1 for a burglary charge and now list him as the suspect in a string of vehicle and home burglaries that happened in late July. ...more

August 22, 2009

Former state appeals court Judge Thomas E. Stringer publicly admitted this morning that he is guilty of bank fraud for helping a stripper hide her financial assets from creditors. ...more

August 6, 2009

A 53-year-old church secretary is accused of bilking her employer out of thousands of dollars. ...more

July 24, 2009