The Bucs like their offensive linemen mean and nasty, like pit bulls protecting a junkyard. You have to wonder, though, if the Bucs linemen haven't suddenly taken the notion a little too far. ...more

September 25, 2008

A Tampa man is facing charges of animal cruelty after investigators received an anonymous tip about pit bulls confined in his yard. ...more

September 18, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Raymond McGeehan said he simply wanted to go jogging Thursday morning at a park on Parkway Boulevard. ...more

September 13, 2008

Boulevard. A 64-year-old chiropractor, McGeehan of Land O' Lakes, was putting on a knee brace when he said he was attacked by a large dog, according to Pasco County Sheriff's Office records. He told the sheriff's office that he had a run-in with the same dog about a week earlier. The wellfield park is near Pine View elementary and middle schools. McGeehan told the sheriff's office that he grabbed a machete and hunting knife from his vehicle and swung at the dog to keep it away, but more dogs came at him, records said. McGeehan thought the dogs were pit bulls, but they were actually boxers. The dogs' owner, Alan McLeod, 59, of Land O' Lakes, told the sheriff's office he was walking his three adult boxers and 13 puppies Thursday morning when he saw McGeehan screaming at the dogs with the machete and knife in his hands. ...more

September 12, 2008

HCRD FLAG FOOTBALL Champions crowned in three Hernando County Recreation Department Flag Football Tournament divisions. HOOTERS CLAIMS 'A' TITLE, 34-21 ...more

August 2, 2008

In a setback for the animal-rights movement, a U.S. appeals court struck down on free-speech grounds Friday a federal law that made it a crime to sell videos of dogs fighting and other acts of animal cruelty. ...more

July 19, 2008

SEBRING - Highlands County Sheriff Susan Benton fired road patrol deputy John Stock on Friday, after an internal investigation into a citizen complaint revealed he used a mobile computer in his patrol vehicle to run the driver's license information of people for non-law enforcement reasons. The complainant alleged Stock had made complaints on him to the Florida Department of Children and Families as well as to Highlands County Animal Control. ...more

July 14, 2008

TAMPA - Investigators have arrested a third man who they say was involved in breeding and training pit bulls to fight. ...more

June 18, 2008

TAMPA - Investigators looking in a home where they thought they would find the breeder of pit bulls bred for fighting also discovered three pounds of marijuana, Tampa police say. ...more

June 17, 2008

Jean Post was taking her Boston terrier for a walk Sunday morning when two pit bulls suddenly appeared. ...more

June 17, 2008