TAMPA - A Tampa man who accused a Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy of roughing him up late last year while he was trying to comfort his girlfriend has been charged with two counts of perjury and one count of making a false report to law enforcement. Robert Kehr-Orzechowski, 31, was arrested Friday at his home. ...more

May 19, 2008

TAMPA - Two young children and their 26-year-old mother were brutally slain in their Lutz home and Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies were mum about specifics, saying only that the scene was grisly and wrenching and that no arrests had been made. ...more

May 12, 2008

BRADENTON - Eduardo Garcia Roves was outside the Save-A-Lot grocery store on 14th Street on April 7 when a teenager ran up to him, grabbed him and tried to slip on handcuffs. ...more

May 4, 2008

Two men with weapons robbed a Wendy's in South Tampa of nearly $800 on Sunday night, police say. ...more

February 25, 2008

TAMPA -- Two men with weapons robbed a Wendy's in South Tampa of nearly $800 on Sunday night, police say. ...more

February 25, 2008

TAMPA - A 65-year-old man who witnesses said was walking naked through the back yards of their Sarasota neighborhood Saturday tried to fight with deputies and had to be subdued with pepper spray and a Taser, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 24, 2008

Hillsborough County Schools have an unworkable and arbitrary school transfer policy that is neither enforceable nor particularly fair. ...more

February 10, 2008

One of the three people Hillsborough County deputies arrested Tuesday on Tanner Road threatened to track a deputy down and beat him up, and the two others struck patrol car windows, deputies say. ...more

February 7, 2008

TAMPA - One of the three people Hillsborough County deputies arrested Tuesday on Tanner Road threatened to track a deputy down and beat him up, and the other two struck patrol car windows, deputies say. ...more

February 6, 2008

Today is a key date in Hillsborough County's history, though not one that merits celebration. Twenty-five years ago three Hillsborough County commissioners, charged with taking bribes from developers, were led from the courthouse in handcuffs. ...more

January 31, 2008