A former Pasco County detention deputy who pleaded guilty last year to a federal steroids charge is accused of violating his probation by having marijuana. ...more

August 12, 2009

Authorities say an Orange City police officer who was injured when a suicidal gunman shot up his cruiser will lose his left eye. ...more

March 27, 2009

Deputies defused a four-hour standoff with a man at a home on the 12000 block of Rock Duck Road by deploying a "light chemical irritant," the sheriff's office says. ...more

March 24, 2009

A 57-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing of a 52-year-old man during an argument Saturday, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 23, 2009

The past year in Florida saw deputies Taser an emu, iguanas fall from trees and a Christmas tree used as a weapon. What else would you expect in a state where a longtime congresswoman hung up on President-elect Barack Obama not once, but twice? ...more

December 29, 2008

The blood has been mopped up, the grenade-scarred marble replaced, the bullet holes covered over. ...more

December 21, 2008

A standoff with an armed man that sent bullets flying through a Port Charlotte neighborhood is over this morning. ...more

September 22, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's detectives have identified a body found in a Dunedin house after an eight-hour standoff Saturday as that of 61-year-old Barbara Hebert. ...more

September 15, 2008

In a drug case, a former Pasco County detention deputy was sentenced Friday to home detention and a former sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty. ...more

September 13, 2008

A former Pasco County detention deputy was sentenced this morning to home detention, and a former sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty to drug charges. ...more

September 12, 2008