TAMPA - An astute TBO.com reader helped lead police to a man sought in a convenience-store heist, a spokeswoman said. Harold Drier, 42, of Tampa, was held without bail at Orient Road Jail today, charged with felony armed robbery, records show. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA - Police have released surveillance images and video in hopes that the public may help them identify an armed robbery suspect. ...more

May 27, 2008

SEBRING — It seems the pain at the pump may not be the only way we'll pay for high gasoline prices. While medical device repairman Jason Rybinski is parking his 2005 GMC Sierra pickup truck in favor of a Japanese sedan, Sheriff Susan Benton is upping her 2009 gasoline budget from $498,000 to $800,000. So even though the sheriff has told her department heads to assemble a flat budget, more tax money than ever will buy fuel for deputies to protect Highlands County. ...more

May 25, 2008

Pasco County sheriff's detectives have arrested a man they believe ran over and dragged a fellow deputy Monday morning, sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said. Brian Patrick Mitchell, 27, was arrested at the same Port Richey apartment complex where Deputy William Orndorff stopped a GMC Envoy for going 65 mph in a 45-mph zone at Embassy Boulevard and Jarman Lane at 4:19 a.m. Monday, Doll said. ...more

May 6, 2008

A Pasco County deputy is in the hospital today after being run over by a suspect's truck in Port Richey, the sheriff's office said. ...more

May 5, 2008

Two pickups and four motorcycles collided just south of town Wednesday morning, clogging traffic on Zephyrhills' main north-south artery. No one was seriously hurt, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

February 21, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies are looking for a man who they say attempted to abduct a 14-year-old girl after she got off her school bus Wednesday afternoon near 140th Avenue and Vivian Drive in Madeira Beach, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 20, 2008

4 motorcycles and 2 pickups collide in south Zephyrhills ...more

February 20, 2008

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle Saturday night while trying to cross U.S. 301 at 51st Avenue East, according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release. ...more

February 17, 2008

A man fired a gun Wednesday at the getaway vehicle of a burglar who had just broken into his home, and he managed to hit a tire, police said. Authorities say they identified and charged the burglar. ...more

February 9, 2008