Polk County sheriff's Deputy Jack "Carlton" Turner's voice over the department radio betrayed the horrifying scope of disaster unfolding around him on Interstate 4. ...more

January 13, 2008

TAMPA - Deputy Jack "Carlton" Turner's voice over the department radio betrayed the horrifying scope of disaster unfolding around him on Interstate 4. "I'm having vehicles exploding all around me at this time," he said frantically near the end of the transmission recorded that morning and released by the sheriff's office on Friday. ...more

January 12, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Jennifer Oswald's plan to serve her neighborhood as part of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Volunteer Citizen Patrol will have to wait. ...more

January 3, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $66,000 bail Monday after Sebring police say he was arrested while walking down Roseland Avenue with a sword and a large knife. ...more

December 18, 2007

Georgia authorities have found the missing mother of toddler twins whose husband was shot to death Friday and have arrested the man accused of killing her husband, Tampa police said late Saturday. ...more

December 9, 2007

Tampa police say Georgia authorities have arrested Timothy Blackwelder and have Brittani Stewart in custody. Stewart is the mother of toddler twins and police say Blackwelder shot and killed her husband. Investigators think Stewart left her home at 910 W. Sitka Street after Timothy Craig Blackwelder, 24, shot and killed her husband, George Anthony Stewart Jr., Friday afternoon. The circumstances of her disappearance are not clear. ...more

December 8, 2007

SEBRING — While the details of the murder of Samuel M. Tiller, 82, in his home at 1610 Falcon Ave., remained closely guarded by Highlands County sheriff's detectives, they have turned to Heartland Crime Stoppers for fresh leads in the case. Tiller was shot dead inside his home on the morning of Nov. 24. ...more

December 8, 2007

TAMPA - Police responding to a disturbance call in the Sulphur Springs area shortly after 4 p.m. today found a man dead of an apparent gunshot wound when they entered a house at 910 W. Sitka St., according to investigators. ...more

December 7, 2007

Debbie Kelley woke up Wednesday morning to the shrieks of a desperate woman. ...more

November 29, 2007

ODESSA – Emergency workers have fixed a natural gas leak on State Road 54 that caused traffic delays. ...more

November 26, 2007