Acting on tips, Pasco County sheriff's vice and narcotics detectives discovered a marijuana crop in a backyard after flying over the property this week. ...more

September 12, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - Acting on tips, Pasco sheriff's vice and narcotics detectives this week discovered a marijuana crop in a backyard after flying over the property. ...more

September 11, 2008

NORTH PORT - A North Port High School military instructor admitted receiving nude photographs and lurid text messages from a teenage girl, according to newly released police documents. ...more

August 14, 2008

The official records department of the Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court will move to a new location Aug. 18. ...more

July 28, 2008

This is the final Saturday edition of the South Tampa News & Tribune and Central Tampa News & Tribune. Beginning next week, all the community news, feature stories, columns, photographs and reader comments you have enjoyed on Saturdays will appear in the Wednesday editions of the News & Tribune. Updated news from your community and neighborhood is posted throughout the week at south ...more

July 12, 2008

Mexico City's Human Rights Commission cited evidence Sunday that police might have partly blocked the exit at a nightclub where a stampede killed 12 people, including a 13-year-old girl. ...more

June 23, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A man working at a construction site was arrested this week in connection with a bank robbery in Seminole in October. ...more

June 19, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - A North Port woman accused of prostitution advertised her services on the popular Web site craigslist.org, sheriff's detectives say. ...more

June 17, 2008

Pinellas County Detectives have arrested a registered sexual predator in Clearwater and charged him with engaging in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl on four times between March and June. Ariquer Diaz Diaz, 32, was arrested on one count of sexual performance by a child and four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. Photographs depicting the victim performing a sexual act on the suspect were recovered from the victim's cellular telephone, detectives said. ...more

June 6, 2008

CALLING ALL GRADUATES With graduation approaching, the Brandon News & Tribune wants to offer high school seniors the opportunity to express themselves in print. ...more

May 31, 2008