The mother of Joshua Lee Altersberger described to jurors a family history of abuse and drugs, as the defense presented testimony in day two of the defendant's penalty trial. Altersberger pleaded guilty March 13 to shooting and killing Florida Highway Patrol trooper Nicholas Sottile during a Jan. 12, 2007 traffic stop in Highlands County. A jury was selected last week to hear testimony to help them make a sentencing recommendation. ...more

March 31, 2009

Two men have been arrested in connection to a March 9 drug bust in Palm Harbor where five warehouses were used as marijuana grow houses. ...more

March 26, 2009

A 48-year-old man was helicoptered from Sebring International Raceway Saturday morning after he fell from a pickup truck. ...more

March 21, 2009

Authorities are trying to figure out who dropped four 55-gallon trash bags filled with marijuana by the side of an Ocala road. ...more

March 15, 2009

Farrah Hernandez called Raymond Veluz her best friend. The two met while working at Westshore Pizza in March 2006 and became inseparable. It is hardly surprising, then, that Hernandez was one of the last people to see Veluz and Derek Pieper alive. ...more

March 14, 2009

Farrah Hernandez called Raymond Veluz her best friend. ...more

March 13, 2009

A Pinellas Sheriff's narcotics detective accidentally shot a 43-year-old woman this morning in St. Petersburg as he and other detectives were bursting through a door to a home, Pinellas Sheriff's authorities say. ...more

March 11, 2009

Police seized $145,000 worth of methamphetamine on Wednesday after a brief pursuit and foot chase. ...more

March 5, 2009

A Riverview man who ran over his neighbor's 3-year-old son in his pickup was sentenced today to 15 years in state prison followed by five years of probation, the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office said. ...more

February 27, 2009

Two 19-year-old Port Charlotte men have been charged with tampering with evidence after trying unsuccessfully to gobble down a bag of marijuana before police could find it. ...more

February 25, 2009