The Sarasota County School Board shut down a police training class on Tuesday after a complaint that the instructor, Mike Treubert, had shown a pornographic movie to the six officers taking the course. Mike Treubert Treubert, 50, is a North Port city commissioner and retired Venice police officer. He also teaches driver's education and has been a longtime youth sports coach. He refused to comment Wednesday on the complaint or the personnel investigation by the School Board. ...more

February 5, 2009

A machete-wielding man threatening to kill others and then himself at Lakeland Regional Medical Center on Thursday night was calmed down and placed under arrest by an off-duty Polk County deputy, deputies say. ...more

January 30, 2009

A Hillsborough County deputy and his wife were arrested, charged with domestic battery, Polk County deputies say. ...more

January 28, 2009

Jim and Susan Frazier saw a sign posted at the Lake Bennett RV Park, where they're wintering between Avon Park and Sebring. ...more

December 22, 2008

A Pinellas sheriff's sergeant has been suspended for a day after he stopped a car driven by a Pasco deputy in September and allowed someone to pick up the deputy, even though the deputy smelled of alcohol, according to sheriff's memorandums released today. ...more

December 2, 2008

The driver of a stolen Ford Explorer drove off at speeds greater than 85 mph when a Hillsborough County deputy tried stopping him at Causeway Boulevard and 78th Street on Monday night, deputies say. ...more

November 18, 2008

Thinking a burglary suspect had pointed a gun his way, Pinellas County Deputy Barnett Bernoff fired one shot at him Sunday night, authorities say. ...more

November 17, 2008

A judge will be asked on Wednesday to keep toxicology results out of evidence during the trial of a man accused of fatally striking a pedestrian with his car. ...more

November 4, 2008

Defense wants toxicology results stricken from evidence. ...more

November 4, 2008

Hernando County sheriff's deputies arrested today three people they say were involved in Brooksville bank robbery and may be connected to an attempted bank robbery in Temple Terrace.. ...more

October 14, 2008