A Hillsborough County detention deputy will be suspended without pay for a week after a departmental investigation found he used excessive force against a female inmate roughly half his size, officials said. ...more

February 3, 2009

Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a 300-plus-pound woman in Spandex pants they say fraudulently used a credit card in Tampa. ...more

December 7, 2008

A corrections deputy did not use excessive force to subdue an inmate who had her spleen removed after a scuffle in the Sarasota County jail last year, a federal jury ruled this week. ...more

September 27, 2008

At the country barbershop in Seffner where I get the few remaining hairs on my head clipped, the conversation this week was about the decline of sideshows at the Florida State Fair. ...more

February 7, 2008