Italy's highest court ruled Thursday in favor of a man's request to disconnect his daughter's feeding tube and allow her to die after 16 years in a vegetative state. ...more

November 14, 2008

A Temple Terrace woman filled several prescriptions for Oxycodone and a muscle relaxer by not telling doctors that she had received prior prescriptions for the drugs, Temple Terrace police say. Police arrested Vanessa Kunkle, 31, of Dade City, at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. ...more

November 5, 2008

A judge has set an April trial date for John A. "Junior" Gotti. ...more

November 3, 2008

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A Colorado couple found an unusual topping on their order of tacos: a small bag of marijuana. ...more

October 25, 2008

Pasco County deputies and detectives, aided by a drug-sniffing dog, found 85 pounds of marijuana in a car that was stopped because of an improperly attached license plate, the sheriff's office reported today. The driver, Jose-Juan Carlos Castro-Ramirez, 29, of Lacoochee, was arrested on a charge of trafficking marijuana. He is being held in the Land O' Lakes Jail with bail set at $50,000. Castro-Ramirez was driving a 1997 Saturn near Old Lakeland Highway and Stewart Road south of Dade City when he was pulled over at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday by the sheriff's office's Street Tactical Operations and Patrol, a report said. ...more

October 23, 2008

Authorities say a Spring Hill man raped a 17-year-old girl while she was incapacitated by prescription painkillers. ...more

October 23, 2008

Allen J. Crotzer, the former St. Petersburg resident who spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit, got a fresh start Tuesday when the state cleared his record of two unrelated convictions. ...more

October 22, 2008

St. Petersburg police said it arrested 28 people today after a monthlong street-level drug operation. ...more

October 17, 2008

Three Bradenton men drove a pickup into Ruskin with more than 400 grams of cocaine Saturday night, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

October 13, 2008

Charges against Nathan Edward McRenoylds increased to second-degree murder after the man he shot Saturday night died Sunday at Tampa General Hospital, authorities say. ...more

October 6, 2008