Police identified today the body of a woman who was struck by a car and killed as she crossed a street Monday night. ...more

October 7, 2009

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office has charged a Palmetto man with murder in the wake of a fatal home invasion Thursday night. Lamont Yarn, 19, who has no permanent address, was shot in the upper body during the incident at a home on Third Avenue Drive East in Palmetto. ...more

October 3, 2009

Starting in April, if someone poking around your house says they're with the Census Bureau, they may actually be. ...more

February 18, 2009

CLEARWATER A 66-year-old man was arrested Monday on charges he sexually assaulted a mentally and physically incapacitated woman at the Highland Pines Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. ...more

October 21, 2008

St. Petersburg police arrested a man early this morning and charged him in the slaying of an acquaintance late Tuesday night, according to a department news release. ...more

October 8, 2008

James Conroy tipped over about four portable toilets at a construction site, trying to catch a man he thought had hidden in one after breaking into a truck. Conroy's hunch was right. ...more

September 2, 2008

It turns out a construction site portable toilet wasn't the best place to hide from two men who think you tried to break into their truck. ...more

August 31, 2008

Danny Burgess was elected to the Zephyrhills City Council at 18. Now 22, he will leave as council president. ...more

July 16, 2008

Danny Burgess is resigning from the Zephyrhills City Council to attend law school in Orlando. ...more

July 15, 2008

SEBRING — The second suspect in the stabbing death of a Lake Placid man seven years ago was brought to the Highlands County Jail on Wednesday to join his son, also charged with second-degree murder. Tirso Marin-Median, now 48, of Madison, was charged with homicide willful kill second-degree murder - not premeditated. On Feb. 19, 2001 sheriff's investigators were called to 303 Highlands Blvd., in Lake Placid, on a report of a stabbing. The victim, Sergio Morales, was found inside the home with multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene by Highlands County Emergency Medical personnel. ...more

June 5, 2008