Police have arrested a man accused of trying to rob a pharmacy by saying he had in his pocket a needle filled with the virus that causes AIDS. ...more

April 19, 2009

At noon Saturday, Highlands County deputies were still looking for the suspects in an early-morning armed robbery. ...more

April 18, 2009

At gunpoint, a 19-year-old Tampa man robbed a person of $80 and the Chinese food he was attempting to deliver, Hillsborough County deputies say. Deputies arrested Christopher Irving Jones on Monday night. He was charged with armed robbery. ...more

March 31, 2009

One of two men who kicked in a kitchen door and ran into gunfire from the homeowner Saturday night dropped dead in the driveway of the Lakeland home Saturday, while the other man got away in a black sports utility vehicle. ...more

March 29, 2009

A canine unit for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has arrested an armed suspect who also was a South Carolina fugitive, deputies say. ...more

March 20, 2009

Investigators belive a man named Troyonta Sha Linzy is the robber who claimed to have a bomb to get oxycodone pills at two local Walgreens stores this week, the Manatee Sheriff's Office said. ...more

March 20, 2009

Claiming O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, an effort is under way to solicit money for the former football star's appeal of his Nevada conviction and prison sentence on kidnapping and armed robbery charges. ...more

March 15, 2009

TAMPA - Kellon H. Wilson, the older brother of University of South Florida linebacker Kion Wilson, was shot and killed Saturday in Miami. ...more

March 11, 2009

A teenager accused of brutally raping two Zephyrhills women in 2007 rejected a plea deal Wednesday that would have sent him to prison for 30 years. ...more

March 5, 2009

A teenager accused of brutally raping two Zephyrhills women in 2007 rejected a plea deal today that would have sent him to prison for 30 years. ...more

March 4, 2009