At 8:05 this morning, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office received a report of a body found in an orange grove in rural Manatee County. ...more

August 11, 2008

An argument over a woman led to a shooting outside a Waffle House restaurant that sent two men to a hospital this morning, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 10, 2008

The knock at the door at 9 a.m. was soft. Through the window, I could see it was my new neighbor, Beth, and her small daughter, Adrianna. They had just returned from a trip to Pittsburgh and had visited one of the Carnegie Museums. At the gift shop, they picked up a souvenir for me. ...more

August 6, 2008

Police released new information Tuesday from their investigation of the carjacking of a 1997 Dodge pickup truck belonging to a Miami man, who picked up a hitchhiker at about 11 p.m. Sunday at the Race Trac gas station. ...more

August 6, 2008

As the needle dug into the skin of her abdomen Thursday afternoon, Miss Dixie fixed her attention on a spot on Tigermoon Tattoo's purple ceiling. ...more

July 19, 2008

TAMPA - Hillsborough County deputies have issued a first-degree murder warrant for Jose A. Villegas-Cintron after the stabbing Saturday of a 20-year-old Tampa man. ...more

July 8, 2008

A Hillsborough sheriff's deputy who said he had always wanted to spend his life in law enforcement used a Taser on his wife then held his service pistol to her head before he was arrested and held for mental evaluation, deputies say. ...more

July 8, 2008

The following chronicles the short lives of eight other infants who died after showing signs of necrotizing enterocolitis and being treated at Tampa General Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The information is based on court papers filed by the parents. ...more

June 28, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — A firefighter was treated at a hospital after a sheriff's deputy accidentally stunned him with a Taser at a fire station. ...more

June 25, 2008

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is moving toward cutting harvest of reef fish yet again, with recent preliminary approval of a ruling that would drop the overall Gulf grouper limit to four fish, only two of which could be gags. Two red grouper also would be allowed in the new limits, rather than the one currently permitted, and the season would be closed Feb. 1 to March 31 during the prime spawning season offshore. ...more

June 18, 2008