Deputies arrested a woman on child neglect and drug charges because her 3-year-old son was sitting next to her in the car when she sold crack cocaine to a confidential informant, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

July 20, 2008

The media is watching this weekend as likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is off in Europe and the Middle East, hoping to impress the locals and build up some kind of resume on one of those "If-It's-Tuesday-It-Must-Be-Baghdad" junkets. ...more

July 20, 2008

Police are looking for two men who attacked a cab driver at knifepoint, one of whom the cabbie stabbed in the hand. ...more

July 19, 2008

Police are looking for two men who attacked a cab driver at knifepoint, one of whom the cabbie stabbed in the hand. ...more

July 18, 2008

Luella McAdoo, the 68-year-old woman accused of forcing a 34-year-old mentally retarded man to perform oral sex on her, was released on her own recognizance this morning by Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge Walter Heinrich. ...more

July 18, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist signed a death warrant this week for a Central Florida man convicted of killing two young girls after raping their mother in 1993. ...more

July 12, 2008

TAMPA - One minute Catarina Felix was at a stop sign in Fort Myers on July 4. Seconds later, the back seat of her car was filled with smoke, fire and screams from her two toddlers. ...more

July 9, 2008

Bruce E. McNally of Hudson agrees with Charley Reese op-ed page column on danger of taking on Iran. ...more

July 9, 2008

SPRING HILL - A 29-year-old man who led a Florida Highway Patrol trooper on a chase through Hernando County on Tuesday was arrested after the engine of the fleeing car blew and he was forced to stop, authorities said. ...more

June 24, 2008

CLEARWATER - A woman was sentenced to 17 years in prison this afternoon in a drunken driving wreck that decapitated one of her teenage passengers. The other teenage passenger suffered a broken jaw. ...more

June 23, 2008