Curtis Stokes, president of the Hillsborough County chapter of the NAACP, has resigned. ...more

September 20, 2009

A suspect was charged with petit theft after he snatched away the phony prescription he was trying to pass. ...more

September 2, 2009

Police are looking for a man who tried to rob a pharmacy Thursday by saying he had in his pocket a needle filled with the AIDS virus. ...more

April 17, 2009

A 71-year-old woman was attacked Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Ross store at Little Road and State Road 54, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

April 15, 2009

Several hours trekking through the woods to avoid law enforcement capture earned a Brooksville man 15 years in prison on Thursday. ...more

March 27, 2009

A man walked into a Walgreen's pharmacy late Wednesday afternoon and demanded 80 milligrams of oxycodone. If the pharmacist didn't comply, the man said, he would press the button on a detonator in his pocket and blow the place up. ...more

March 18, 2009

A robber looking for narcotics got away with several bottles of medicine for the treatment of attention deficit disorder. ...more

February 27, 2009

Prescription drugs now kill more Floridians than heroin or cocaine, yet the state does not monitor the prescribing and dispensing of deadly painkillers, such as oxycodone. ...more

January 6, 2009

A 32-year-old man is charged with robbery and trafficking in oxycodone after robbing a CVS Pharmacy in Oldsmar on Tuesday, authorities said. ...more

December 24, 2008

Pinellas County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man they say robbed a CVS pharmacy for prescription drugs. ...more

December 23, 2008