TAMPA - Tuesday's shooting at Lakeland Square Mall – that left one man wounded, another arrested and patrons scrambling for cover from .25-caliber bullets – was the result of a gang battle between the Crips and the Bloods, police said. ...more

June 18, 2008

BRADENTON — A man stabbed in the head during a fight remained in critical condition Sunday at Manatee Memorial Hospital, where the victim is not functioning on his own, Bradenton police say. ...more

May 25, 2008

A Land O' Lakes man is accused of embezzling nearly $1 million from DigiQuest Technologies, where he worked as chief operating officer, Tampa police said. ...more

May 24, 2008

TAMPA - Three law enforcement agencies in Polk County are working together to solve a string of burglaries this month that targeted retail stores. ...more

May 21, 2008

BRADENTON - Detectives are looking for a man who they say is connected with an April 29 home invasion robbery. ...more

May 20, 2008

A Lake Wales police detective was arrested late Thursday and accused of exchanging sexually charged text messages with a 16-year-old Lake Wales High School student working in the police cadet program, which he coordinated, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement report. ...more

May 9, 2008

Longtime Mayor Roy Pierce can carve another notch in his belt. Pierce, 58, was re-elected to the office Tuesday night for another one-year term. ...more

May 8, 2008

Family members and police were relieved but frustrated to learn that a man who disappeared Feb. 29 from his job in Plant City after cashing a large check left on his own volition and is living in Oklahoma. ...more

May 7, 2008

Jesse L. Martin is putting down his "Law & Order" detective's shield, and Anthony Anderson is in negotiations to pick it up. ...more

February 25, 2008

Three weeks before Timothy Scott Riggs was shot in the chest and killed outside his Clearfield, Ky., mobile home, he awoke in a Fort Lauderdale motel room to find a friend dead, his father said Tuesday. ...more

February 20, 2008