Former Florida State starting tight end Charlie Graham remains hopeful he will play again for the Seminoles next season. ...more

May 24, 2008

The subject of guns and football players has been a hot one recently, highlighted by the arrest of Florida State star receiver Preston Parker on gun and drug charges last month in Palm Beach County. ...more

May 23, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A group of children headed to school from the Chelsea Woods Apartments shared their bus shelter with a dead man Friday morning. ...more

May 10, 2008

Deanne Martin grabbed her purse and told her family she would be right back. She left their Wesley Chapel home about 10:25 p.m. on April 28. Her family hasn't seen her since. Martin's family thinks she might have contemplated suicide and hopes that she can be found before anything happens to her, said her sister, Jan Ayers. The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is working the case as a missing person investigation. ...more

May 9, 2008

LAND O' LAKES -- A group of children headed to school from the Chelsea Woods Apartments shared their bus shelter with a dead man this morning. Deputies responding to an 8:27 a.m. call from a distressed mother found a 19-year-old white male sitting on a bench in a bus shelter at 4453 Alpine Road. Investigators believe he died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head; a neighbor reported hearing a gunshot at about 3:50 a.m. today, Pasco County Sheriff's Office spokesman Doug Tobin said. ...more

May 9, 2008

Reports documenting the arrest of a suspected drug dealer on Friday night give two figures for the amount of confiscated marijuana and crack cocaine. ...more

May 8, 2008

VENICE — A Venice Elementary School teacher is under arrest this morning, charged with abuse of mentally handicapped students in her classroom. ...more

February 22, 2008

VENICE - Two off-duty Venice police officers were involved in an altercation at a Sarasota County bar over the weekend, and for the second time in a month the Venice Police Department is conducting an internal investigation into the conduct of its officers. ...more

January 16, 2008

TAMPA - Eight days into her college career, Plant High graduate Mary Grace Taaffe died from injuries suffered in a crash in which she drove under the influence. On Sunday, investigators charged Florida Gulf Coast University students Nicholas Charles Herrig, 19, and Kevin Michael Curtin, 19, with misdemeanor charges of hosting an open house party. Taaffe left the party minutes before her crash. Different charges are pending against partygoers Tyler Fry, Brian Cochran and Brett Griffin, a release states. The three "gave false statements to law enforcement" about what they knew about the party and crash, an investigative report released today states. ...more

October 1, 2007

AVON PARK — Authorities suspect arson destroyed a detached garage and car, which also was found with racial slurs spray-painted over them early Sunday morning. The state fire marshal is still investigating the fire near Avon Park Middle School and no suspects were listed, but Avon Park Fire Department Capt. Robert Border said the anti-Hispanic slurs and a Folk Nation gang sign spray-painted on the garage made it "highly suspicious." He couldn't recall the last time Avon Park had a racially motivated arson. "It's been a while since we had something this bad," he said. ...more

October 1, 2007