TALLAHASSEE - Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and members of the Gang Reduction Strategy Executive Committee today released their statewide gang reduction strategy, developed to address the threat of criminal gangs and gang violence. The strategy focuses on the three key goals of stopping the growth of gangs in Florida: prevention and intervention, law enforcement, and the rehabilitation and re-entry of offenders back into society. ...more

June 24, 2008

When artist Ernesto Cuevas Jr. first asked children at the Gardenville Recreation Center to draw what was near and dear to them, he got a surprise. ...more

June 22, 2008

TAMPA HEIGHTS - Impromptu jam sessions are in swing again at Gram's Place. ...more

June 21, 2008

A shooting Tuesday at Lakeland Square mall - which left one man wounded, another arrested and patrons scrambling for cover from .25-caliber bullets - was the result of a gang battle between the Crips and the Bloods, police said. ...more

June 19, 2008

TAMPA - Tuesday's shooting at Lakeland Square Mall – that left one man wounded, another arrested and patrons scrambling for cover from .25-caliber bullets – was the result of a gang battle between the Crips and the Bloods, police said. ...more

June 18, 2008

TAMPA - Racketeering and conspiracy charges have been dropped in the case against the final five defendants among more than 50 arrested in a roundup of suspected Latin Kings gang members. ...more

May 23, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY — Sheriff's officials arrested 11 people in a raid Thursday night that they say broke up a loose-knit but active drug gang. ...more

May 9, 2008

Prosecutors tried to convince a judge Thursday that an informant slated to testify against several members of the Latin Kings street gang was an integral part of the gang and has specific knowledge of criminal activity. ...more

February 15, 2008

TAMPA - Prosecutors tried to convince a judge today that an informant, slated to testify against several members of the Latin Kings street gang, was an integral part of the gang who has specific knowledge of criminal activity. ...more

February 14, 2008

A key witness against members of the Latin Kings street gang was charged with a misdemeanor in Osceola County last year after sheriff's deputies pulled him over in a car renovated to look like an unmarked police car -- complete with flashing lights. ...more

February 14, 2008