BRANDON - In a patch of earth behind the Falkenburg Road Jail grows pure heat. There are habaneros, jalapeños, long red peppers and stubby yellow ones. ...more

December 4, 2007

Officers arrested a late-night customer at a downtown Publix supermarket after he barreled through the doors using two shopping carts and broke several bottles of wine, police said. ...more

November 19, 2007

The 3-year-old boy left the unlocked apartment and was exposed to great danger while walking near a busy street, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

November 11, 2007

APOLLO BEACH – A trio wanted in connection with a series of smash-and-grab vehicle burglaries from Pasco to Miami-Dade counties were arrested Thursday on Interstate 75 in southern Hillsborough County, authorities said. ...more

November 2, 2007

TAMPA - A 33-year-old Tampa man arrested in March and charged with possession of child pornography has been arrested again and charged with making some of the images and molesting a child. ...more

October 31, 2007

Undercover officers looking for car thieves Tuesday discovered a sexual relationship between a Middleton High School teacher and a teenage boy whom they pulled over driving the teacher's Jeep Grand Cherokee, officials said. ...more

October 25, 2007

TAMPA - Police stumbled upon a sexual relationship between a Middleton High School teacher and a 15-year-old male student late Tuesday after pulling over the teenager driving the teacher's Jeep Grand Cherokee, officials said. ...more

October 24, 2007

TAMPA - The state Attorney General has filed Medicaid-fraud charges against a man who worked for a company providing in-home support for developmentally disabled people. ...more

October 19, 2007

TAMPA - She saw Bobby Joe Helms in person for the first time today in a Hillsborough County courtroom. After serving 13 years in prison for rape, he was a free man. The woman, now 60, is one of about a dozen women whom Helms acknowledged attacking in the early 1980s as part of a plea agreement decades ago in which he linked himself to about 10 rapes and four attempted rapes. ...more

October 8, 2007

While Yahia Megahed waited to see his brother at a Hillsborough County jail, he looked into a camera used for jail visits and made some silly faces, moving his eyebrows and pursing his lips. ...more

October 6, 2007