When Bill Jones got the call about the bull, he had no idea what he was in for."I thought maybe it was something that got hit in the road," Jones says. "All they told me was that it was 500 pounds." For the past three years, Jones has been driving a tow truck for Stepps Towing. Yesterday afternoon, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says it needed Jones' tow truck to cart off a bull it found off 59th Street in Tampa. ...more

July 31, 2008

HUDSON A suspect in a July 1 bank robbery in the Hudson area turned himself into authorities Tuesday, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office arrest report and court warrant released today. ...more

July 9, 2008

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a man found shot to death this month in a rented house in Seminole where he lived with a number of people who worked at the same restaurant. ...more

June 28, 2008

LARGO - The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a man found shot to death this month in a rented house in Seminole where he lived with a number of people who worked at the same restaurant. ...more

June 27, 2008

Two pit bulls were taken on a judge's order Friday from the house of a man who spent six months in jail for beating his dog to death in 2003. ...more

June 10, 2008

GULFPORT -- A man and a woman were found shooting up heroin Thursday morning in a parking lot next to Gulfport Elementary School, police said. ...more

February 22, 2008

LARGO - The owner of five horses and a donkey found weak and malnourished last August began a six-month jail term today, according to SPCA Tampa Bay. ...more

February 14, 2008

A 53-year-old homeless man in Lakeland was arrested Monday in connection with the theft of a Ronald McDonald charities donation box, Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 22, 2008

Like most of you, I read the newspaper almost every day. It's a morning ritual: coffee, newspaper, CNN. My mother insists that, me being a columnist for Highlands Today, I should get a free newspaper out of the deal. "What, they can't throw you a free paper?" she'll say. I explain to her that I'm already getting paid for my weekly column. I know this may be a shock to some of you, that I actually get paid for this stuff. Perhaps I've blown a fantasy out of the water for you, that world famous writers get free newspapers. Let me throw you another curveball. Writers are not exempt from police visits to their home. Wednesday of last week I was sitting inside my house, reading through the newspaper, when the doorbell rang. There were two men outside, one of them holding up a bright shiny police badge. ...more

January 14, 2008

A man who spent more than a decade in a Florida prison for a fatal stabbing with a 6-inch filet knife is now accused of kidnapping and trying to strangle his former girlfriend. ...more

December 14, 2007