The Super Bowl brings thousands of visitors and plenty of money to the city. With that comes a notorious element: prostitution. Tampa police say they are working to combat the problem. Monday morning, police conducted an operation to crack down on prostitution. By day's end, police had arrested 13 people on prostitution or lewd and lascivious charges. ...more

January 26, 2009

Polk County deputies are investigating an armed robbery Friday afternoon at a store in Fort Meade. ...more

January 24, 2009

Tragedy nearly struck a group of actors in Bradenton when authorities say a loaded gun was accidentally used during a rehearsal. ...more

January 21, 2009

A former St. Petersburg real estate agent who was attacked while showing a house three years ago will share her ordeal on national television. ...more

January 8, 2009

In March 2006, Pinellas County real estate agent Julie Roberts was pistol-whipped and robbed by a man posing as a perspective home buyer. Now her story is scheduled to air on the Biography Channel's "I Survived" program. ...more

January 5, 2009

It must be one special egg beater. That was the loot two men demanded after entering a home in Plant City, one brandishing a pistol and the other holding a knife to the resident's throat, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

December 14, 2008

Police are searching for two men who tried to rob three people in Clearwater early this morning, shooting one and striking another victim in the face with a pistol. ...more

December 14, 2008

A 63-year-old woman thwarted an attempt by a young woman to take her vehicle in a Palm Harbor parking lot Wednesday night, even though the would-be carjacker pistol-whipped her, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

December 11, 2008

Pinellas County detectives arrested a 31-year-old man they say robbed a convenience store at gunpoint Saturday night, getting away with cash and a customer's cell phone. ...more

December 7, 2008

Pinellas County deputies arrested a 21-year-old man early this morning in connection with an armed home invasion in which one victim was pistol whipped. ...more

November 30, 2008