NEW PORT RICHEY -- In a two-day, street-level drug sweep, Pasco County deputies arrested 62 suspects on 170 charges, Sheriff Bob White announced today. ...more

November 24, 2009

Abuses of prescription painkillers is a hard pill for state lawmakers to swallow. So-called "pill mills" have transformed much of Florida into "the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market," state Rep. John Legg said in a press release. ...more

October 24, 2009

The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter says he was criticized by a prosecutor for his testimony about the role Smith's former boyfriend had in her medication. ...more

October 19, 2009

Police and federal drug agents are searching a Las Vegas pharmacy as part of the Michael Jackson investigation. ...more

August 11, 2009

A Walton County sheriff's deputy charged with drug trafficking is the third to be fired by the department in recent days. ...more

January 11, 2009

Almost everyone has them: old, expired or unneeded prescription drugs sitting in pill bottles around the house. ...more

December 31, 2008

James Morris was driving impaired the morning he fatally struck a man taking out garbage, authorities allege. ...more

December 13, 2008

State officials are taking steps to revoke the license of a nursing home here, maintaining it does not meet various standards of care. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has not issued a deadline for Long Term Care of St. Petersburg to close. But the agency has ordered the nursing home to begin evaluating patients at the facility, at 3479 54th Ave. N., to determine types of facilities suitable for their placement. ...more

November 25, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY – Authorities recently found two young girls in an apartment filled with drugs and loaded guns and two unconscious adults. ...more

November 6, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's deputies are out in force tonight in Lealman as part of a crackdown targeting about 60 street-level drug dealers. ...more

August 27, 2008