NORTH PORT - Hillsborough County authorities are looking for a man who beat up an off-duty North Port officer outside of a Tampa nightclub early Friday. ...more

September 8, 2009

Former Major League pitcher Billy Koch, 34, was arrested by North Port Police on Saturday after a fight with a neighbor. ...more

July 14, 2009

A reported abduction in North Port on Monday night touched off a multi-agency search that briefly shut down Interstate 75 as authorities scrambled to find a 44-year-old woman, who was eventually located in a local restaurant with her alleged abductor, a 17-year-old boy. ...more

March 17, 2009

Two 19-year-old Port Charlotte men have been charged with tampering with evidence after trying unsuccessfully to gobble down a bag of marijuana before police could find it. ...more

February 25, 2009

Law enforcement officers chased down four suspects in a Fort Myers jewelry store robbery Thursday night, capturing the men after their getaway car nearly crashed into trees lining Interstate 75, the Florida Highway Patrol said. One of the men was later shot by a Lee County sheriff's deputy but was expected to recover. ...more

December 5, 2008

NORTH PORT — A man beat two children, put a gun to a girl's head and killed her cat, authorities say. ...more

November 14, 2008

SOUTH VENICE - A North Port man has been awarded $100,000 for pain and suffering after he was falsely arrested and charged with molesting a 5-year-old neighbor. ...more

November 13, 2008

NORTH PORT - Genetic material from Patrick Dewayne Murphy was found under the fingernails of 6-year-old Coralrose Fullwood after she was found murdered in North Port two years ago, court records show, suggesting she fought her attacker. ...more

September 13, 2008

NORTH PORT - Police arrested Marty Dorsch, 20, on Tuesday after the 3-year-old she was reportedly babysitting drowned in her home's swimming pool. ...more

September 10, 2008

A man shot himself in the chest and lied about it to law enforcement so he could claim disability benefits, North Port police say. ...more

September 9, 2008