A 45-year-old Tampa man was sentenced today to six months in a halfway house and five years probation for trying to bring a hunting knife onto an airplane. ...more

January 29, 2009

Brandon J.P. Flaherty, 18, was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after threatening a family member with a knife. ...more

December 6, 2008

A student at Smith Middle School was arrested Friday and charged with possessing a weapon on school grounds, a felony. ...more

November 8, 2008

A 44-year-old Tampa man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of carrying a weapon on an airplane. Raul Gambe Mata admitted in a plea agreement that he brought a hunting knife with a six-inch blade in his carry-on bag when he attempted to board Delta flight 5634 from Tampa to Cincinnati on July 29. ...more

October 23, 2008

A 27-year-old Tampa man was jailed early this morning, accused of going after an acquaintance with a butcher knife and jabbing the 8-inch blade through a screen door to get at the victim. ...more

October 11, 2008

Two women were cut by a thief outside a laundromat Saturday night as they tried to wrestle away from him a purse he had just stolen from one of them, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

October 6, 2008

The final, chilling posting read, "It's time." In the hours before a 25-year-old man went on a killing rampage in central Tokyo on Sunday, he posted a series of messages on an online bulletin board from his cell phone, the authorities said Monday. ...more

June 10, 2008

A man who was bitten on the chest in a front yard brawl went from victim to suspect when he broke into a car parked at the hospital upon his release from the emergency room, a report shows. ...more

February 5, 2008

As a child, Lazaro Galindo cut open the family puppies 'to see all the pretty colors inside.' As a teen, he kept a black cauldron filled with hatchets and knives, tools he used to sacrifice animals for his religion. He once told a detective he had an insatiable desire to eat human flesh. ...more

September 3, 2007

MIAMI - As a child, Lazaro Galindo cut open the family puppies "to see all the pretty colors inside." As a teen, he kept a black cauldron filled with hatchets and knives, all tools he used to sacrifice animals for his religion. He once told a detective he had an insatiable desire to eat human flesh. ...more

September 2, 2007