If a closed-door meeting today is any indication, the police department and the city's convenience store owners are at loggerheads over which safety measures the stores should install to ward off robbers. ...more

February 3, 2009

Highlands Independent Bank is offering a reward of $1,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest of two people who attempted to break into the ATM at the Lake Placid branch on Jan. 29. ...more

February 2, 2009

A home invasion in Bradenton early this morning left three people shot, one fatally, police said. ...more

February 1, 2009

Three people were shot and one killed about 6:15 a.m. today in Bradenton. ...more

February 1, 2009

The attorney for the 18-year-old Gulfport man accused of trying to kill a St. Petersburg police officer Monday night will hold a news conference this afternoon outside the police station. ...more

January 28, 2009

The Sebring Police Department is continuing an investigation into a weekend assault that injured two people, with one suffering from an apparent stab wound. ...more

January 21, 2009

Gulfport police have arrested two St. Petersburg 16-year-old boys on charges they took part in a carjacking Saturday night. Two others involved have not been identified, said Lt. Robert Vincent of the Gulport Police Department. ...more

January 20, 2009

A Sarasota fund principal who vanished this week was last heard from Wednesday afternoon when he called his stepson to retrieve a note he had left at home, said the Sarasota County Sheriff's spokesman. ...more

January 17, 2009

Two separate car crashes have prompted authorities to temporarily close a section of Missouri Avenue at Ponce De Leon Boulevard in Largo, Largo police said. ...more

January 14, 2009

The first woman in the history of the Bradenton Police Department to serve 20 years will be honored today by the city. ...more

January 14, 2009