Pasco County authorities have released a composite sketch of a man in the attempted armed robbery of a pharmacy last week and the earlier assault of a 71-year-old carjacking victim. ...more

April 24, 2009

Pasco County authorities have released a composite sketch of a suspect in last week's attempted armed robbery of a pharmacy and earlier assault of a 71-year-old carjacking victim. The composite is of one of two suspects in the 1 p.m. April 14 robbery attempt at the Medicine Shoppe, 10720 State Road 54, and the carjacking 35 minutes earlier outside the Ross Dress for Less store on Little Road at S.R. 54. ...more

April 23, 2009

A pajama-wearing 8-year-old boy found running along a country road in Crystal River last week wasn't abducted after all but left home on his own, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office said today. ...more

March 25, 2009

DNA analysis has helped identify the skeletal remains of a homicide victim found in 1989 as that of a woman who disappeared nine years earlier, St. Petersburg police announced this morning. Melinda Harder was 20 years old and was living at 2136 23rd Ave. N. when she was reported missing on July 27, 1980, police said. ...more

October 15, 2008

In the midst of being raped, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino told herself to pay attention to details that would allow her to identify her attacker. ...more

August 10, 2008

A suspect who bonded out of jail and never showed up for his court date in a 10-year-old crime has been located and arrested in Alaska, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

July 3, 2008

Authorities say a woman who discovered her neighbor dead in his home stole the deceased's credit card and used it at gas stations. ...more

May 29, 2008

CLEARWATER - A man driving a car was shot this morning, crashed into a tree and was pronounced dead at an area hospital, police said. ...more

May 19, 2008

Polk County deputies are searching for an armed man who pistol-whipped a woman who answered a knock at her door. ...more

February 10, 2008

As the city gears up for Gasparilla, a dispute continues between Tampa police and a woman who said she was raped - then was arrested - during last year's festivities. ...more

January 26, 2008