A 61-year-old man, upset over a mix-up in his medication, threatened to blow up a Pinellas County Health and Human Services office on Monday evening, police said. ...more

July 7, 2009

Police say Myron Stenhouse called 911 today to report his estranged wife was shot to death. Police say Stenhouse should know; he was the one who shot her. ...more

June 19, 2009

Lakeland police are investigating whether a 4-year-old girl was molested while playing at a public park. The girl was playing inside a tube slide with an older child Friday at Common Ground Park, 1000 E. Edgewood Drive in Lakeland, police spokesman Jack Gillen said. When she emerged from the slide, her shorts were pulled down and her underwear was on backward, Gillen said. ...more

June 15, 2009

A volleyball coach with the city's recreation department was arrested this afternoon, accused of pawning a necklace belonging to one of her players, police said. ...more

June 2, 2009

A man suspected of shooting and killing a well-known doctor who performed late-term abortions was in jail Monday. ...more

June 1, 2009

Sikhs wielding knives and a handgun attacked two preachers at a rival temple in Vienna on Sunday in a brawl that left at least 16 people wounded, police and witnesses said. A related clash later broke out in northern India. ...more

May 24, 2009

Lakeland police said they are investigating a suspicious death this afternoon. Police found a woman's body near the Amtrak train station at 600 E. Main St. at 11:21 a.m. today, police spokesman Jack Gillen said. ...more

April 15, 2009

Troy Christoff lives with five relatives in his Winter Haven home, and this morning he wanted to shoot them all, authorities say. ...more

April 14, 2009

Two officers were standing in the parking lot of the police station this morning at 5:30 a.m. when a man walked up to them and told them he had killed his wife. ...more

April 12, 2009

A 79-year-old Lakeland man with dementia, who had last been seen Tuesday evening, has been found unharmed. ...more

April 8, 2009