A baseball bat took center stage in a violent family feud Thursday, used once to beat a brother and an hour later to smash out the windows of a pickup, deputies say. ...more

September 29, 2008

Billy Wagner is out for the rest of this season and likely all of next. ...more

September 9, 2008

BOSTON Red Sox ace Josh Beckett is set to rejoin Boston's rotation on Friday night in Texas. ...more

September 3, 2008

The Boston Red Sox acquired Mark Kotsay from Atlanta for a minor-leaguer Wednesday, adding depth to their outfield one day after J.D. Drew went on the disabled list. ...more

August 28, 2008

Detective Ronnie Cooper walked around a sheriff's office conference room Thursday, pointing at light bulbs as long as his forearm and marijuana plants as high as his waist. ...more

August 8, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has announced 72 arrests and the dismantling of 65 marijuana grow houses in an operation called Indoor Outlaws. ...more

August 7, 2008

A 36-year-old man was shot in both legs and another man was shot in the forearm this morning in Gibsonton, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

August 5, 2008

I itch. As I write this, I am trying mightily to keep from removing my fingers from the keyboard and raking them across the ugly, raised red patch on my shin. Or the one ringing my wrist. Or the one spread across my forearm. Or the one slightly north of my pinkie toe. Or the one shaped like a chain of Caribbean islands two inches from my belly button. ...more

July 27, 2008

A Sebring man was free Friday on $5,000 bail after he was arrested and accused of pushing his pregnant girlfriend so hard into a bedroom door that it broke the door frame. ...more

July 21, 2008

TAMPA - Sheriff's detectives are looking for three men who walked out of a convenience store with a box of scratch-off lottery tickets worth $5,000. ...more

July 16, 2008