TAMPA – Five people have been arrested in a guns-for-drugs sting, according to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ...more

January 14, 2009

A Palmetto man was charged with growing marijuana in his residence after his daughter told a school resource officer about the plants, the Manatee Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 9, 2009

Four of the Tampa Bay area's top lawmen, some of whom have handled some of the area's most significant catastrophes or crimes, were sworn in today, or were expected to be. ...more

January 6, 2009

A helicopter, bloodhound and several deputies spent hours searching for a missing 8-year-old girl Monday. Eventually, the girl was found. On the roof of her home. ...more

January 6, 2009

A 71-year-old man died tonight after he was stabbed several times at a Palmetto boarding house, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 5, 2009

Ella Faye Meadows was sitting in the living room of her Manatee County home, watching television, when a fire started Sunday. One or more people had poured accelerant along the outside of Meadows' lanai and lit it, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office news release. ...more

January 5, 2009

A man walking along 20th Street West in Bradenton was hit on the head with a plank of wood and stabbed in the stomach tonight during a robbery attempt, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 4, 2009

Man shoots another man he found at his ex-girlfriend's house in Bradenton before turning the gun on himself ...more

December 28, 2008

Authorities in Manatee County are searching for a mentally ill woman who left her group home in Ellenton earlier today. ...more

December 28, 2008

Two women were arrested this morning after robbing the man they had just propositioned for sex, authorities said. ...more

December 19, 2008