A Polk County sheriff's deputy was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence after he was found passed out behind the wheel of his personal vehicle early this morning, the sheriff's office said. ...more

June 15, 2008

Tim Donaghy is an admitted felon who disgraced himself and the game he supposedly loves. No doubt about any of that. It still doesn't mean he was lying when he told the feds he wasn't the only crooked official in the National Basketball Association. ...more

June 13, 2008

A local nonprofit housing group, seeking to distance itself from Hillsborough County's troubled Affordable Housing Office, will turn down a $300,000 grant from the office. ...more

June 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Family and community members gathered Wednesday night to remember a 17-year-old Gibbs High School student shot and killed by a police officer over the weekend. ...more

June 11, 2008

A sheriff's deputy whose workers' compensation claim was denied by a judge who questioned his veracity won reinstatement to the Pasco payroll Wednesday. ...more

May 29, 2008

Federal investigators are looking into allegations that several current and former employees of the county's affordable housing office formed a corporation that could compete for grants administered by the office and tried to steer business to a real estate company owned by a spouse of one of the employees. ...more

May 28, 2008

SEBRING — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office is looking into the arrest of a blind Sebring man who was stopped by a sheriff's deputy, disarmed of his walking stick then Tasered twice and pepper sprayed for not listening while walking along County Road 17 South toward his home. Sheriff's General Counsel Mike Durham said Friday that the sheriff's Internal Affairs Lt. Gus Garcia has been made aware of the incident and the matter has been "entered into the I.A. system." "It needs a further review," Durham said, into use of force as well as the detention of Holland. An administrative review of the situation has been ordered. During the course of the administrative review, it could be determined that an internal investigation could be requested by Garcia into the deputy's actions. ...more

May 23, 2008

Police are searching for a felon who with another man beat a Tampa police officer early Monday during an undercover prostitution sting. ...more

May 20, 2008

TAMPA - Police are searching for a convicted felon who with another man beat a Tampa police officer early this morning during an undercover prostitution sting. ...more

May 19, 2008

A Lake Wales police detective was arrested late Thursday and accused of exchanging sexually charged text messages with a 16-year-old Lake Wales High School student working in the police cadet program, which he coordinated, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement report. ...more

May 9, 2008