A 77-year-old Avon Park man driving a Mercury Grand Marquis lost control of his vehicle Monday morning and took out two columns at the Highlands Independent Bank branch on Main Street in Avon Park. ...more

June 16, 2009

A 79-year-old woman drove into a vacant shop at the Palma Ceia Village shopping plaza this afternoon, police said. ...more

February 26, 2009

"Big" Rick Bliss and his friends have a pretty unusual way to have fun. ...more

December 10, 2008

A man who crashed a sport utility vehicle into a Clearwater police cruiser before leading police on a chase eventually was found hiding behind a big-screen TV, police say. ...more

December 9, 2008

A Bartow police officer investigating a stolen vehicle complaint early this morning shot at a suspect after the man slammed the vehicle in reverse, aiming at the lawman. The bullet, or shattered glass, cut the top of the suspect's head. He was not seriously injured. ...more

October 11, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Attempted armed robberies of two different cabbies this morning left one with a bullet wound, police said. ...more

July 10, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A pickup truck crashed into a store this morning after its driver mistook the accelerator for the brake, fire officials said. Harris Martin, 84, told authorities his Dodge Dakota was still rolling, so he pressed on what he thought was the brake, said Lt. Joel Granata of St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue. ...more

June 2, 2008

Radioactive carbon-14 trapped in the lens of the eye permits researchers to accurately date the year of a person's birth, according to Danish scientists. ...more

February 23, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS A 75-year-old woman mistook her accelerator for her brake this morning and plowed her 2008 Cadillac into a doctor's office, injuring a woman sitting in the lobby, Tarpon Springs police said. ...more

February 21, 2008

APOLLO BEACH - A man died after a woman accidentally hit him with her Cadillac, dragged him underneath it and crashed the vehicle into a tree and condo, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Vida Morgan said. ...more

January 29, 2008