A 24-year-old father of twin baby girls was arrested at his home Monday evening, accused of killing one of the infants in December after apparently being bothered by her cries, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office report. ...more

January 27, 2009

Three months after a Pasco deputy who reportedly smelled of alcohol and had been driving nearly 100 mph in Pinellas was fired, a second deputy who was in the car has been suspended. ...more

January 23, 2009

Lisa Michelle Dillard, the woman charged as an accomplice in a fatal purse-snatching in November, is accused of snatching a purse weeks before. After seeing news reports about the mugging and subsequent death of Linda Roma at a TJ Maxx in Hudson, another victim recognized Dillard as the woman who also snatched her purse Nov. 8 at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Port Richey, according to a report. ...more

January 23, 2009

A former school resource officer who reportedly told a student he was falling in love with her will not appeal his firing from the Pasco Sheriff's Office as originally planned. ...more

January 21, 2009

A former school resource officer who reportedly told a student he was falling in love with her will not appeal his firing from the Pasco Sheriff's Office as originally planned. Cpl. Christopher Magavero, a school resource officer at River Ridge Middle School, was fired in October, the same day investigators say he took the 13- year-old out of class and declared his feelings. ...more

January 20, 2009

He blamed his dog but authorities and physicians didn't buy it. Now, John Joseph MacCarelli III faces a felony charge of felony child abuse, accused of hurting an infant he was watching while the boy's father worked. ...more

January 13, 2009

Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man who robbed a Bank of America on Thursday morning. ...more

January 9, 2009

Pasco Sheriff's deputies are investigating a bank robbery – the second since Tuesday – but it's not thought to be the work of the same man, said sheriff's office spokesman Kevin Doll. ...more

January 8, 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

Authorities are searching for a robber with a machete who held up a West Pasco Bank of America branch this morning. ...more

January 6, 2009