The widow of a man killed in a shootout after apparently taunting police said she had taken him for a mental evaluation just 12 hours before the incident began. ...more

October 30, 2009

Deputies defused a four-hour standoff with a man at a home on the 12000 block of Rock Duck Road by deploying a "light chemical irritant," the sheriff's office says. ...more

March 24, 2009

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An Indiana investment adviser is not mentally competent to be tried on charges he deliberately crashed his plane in the Florida Panhandle in a botched plot to fake his death to escape financial ruin, his public defender said Wednesday. ...more

January 21, 2009

An 18-year-old man faces arson charges after setting his kitchen on fire with lighter fluid, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

November 7, 2008

Joseph Valdez used narcotics for more than a decade before he died of an overdose in April 2007. He was 32. Here is a timeline of his quest for drugs in the months before his death. ...more

August 1, 2008

FORT WALTON BEACH - An Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed Tuesday by a man who had barricaded himself inside a home after a violent clash with police hours earlier, officials said. The suspected gunman was also killed. ...more

July 22, 2008

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy accused of using a Taser on his wife and then holding a service pistol to her head will be freed from jail without having to post bail – pending the outcome of his case. ...more

July 8, 2008

A Hillsborough sheriff's deputy who said he had always wanted to spend his life in law enforcement used a Taser on his wife then held his service pistol to her head before he was arrested and held for mental evaluation, deputies say. ...more

July 8, 2008

TAMPA - A Largo woman was charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty after deputies found 17 dogs living in their own waste in her deteriorating home, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 19, 2008

In his new role as U.N. messenger of peace, George Clooney was playing himself. ...more

February 1, 2008