TAMPA Zackery Hicks, 42, needed a place to live after serving 14 years in prison on a robbery conviction. But, as a registered sex offender, Hicks wasn't allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center, public park, playground or bus stop. ...more

September 18, 2008

A registered sex offender in Pennsylvania faces charges of tempting a minor to have sex after federal authorities say he chatted online with an undercover agent in Tampa posing as a teenage girl. ...more

August 29, 2008

Yesemia Polo wants to get to her classes at Jefferson High School but has missed three of four days this week through no fault of her own, her stepfather said. Mario Cabrera said his 17-year-old stepdaughter, who is starting her junior year at Jefferson, waited at the assigned bus stop at MacDill Avenue and Abdella Street in West Tampa on Monday and Wednesday with six or seven other students. School was canceled on Tuesday because of Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

August 22, 2008

Police say a registered sex offender from Georgia said he killed a 13-year-old girl whose body was discovered by a maid in a hotel room. ...more

July 12, 2008

HUDSON A suspect in a July 1 bank robbery in the Hudson area turned himself into authorities Tuesday, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office arrest report and court warrant released today. ...more

July 9, 2008

SARASOTA — A registered sex offender crept into an elderly woman's home and tried to molest her early Monday, deputies say. ...more

June 24, 2008

A California-based company lost its bid Tuesday to expand a group home off Fort King Road and Winton Drive from six beds to 10 and may soon find itself under investigation by the state. ...more

February 13, 2008

The young blonde who once worked as a waitress in a Sun City Center restaurant and now sweeps floors in her mother's Ruskin barber shop has aspirations for television stardom and is certain she could write a best-selling book. ...more

December 22, 2007

She wrote him letters, accepted his many phone calls and even gave him money, officials said. But that's not what put a nurse at Falkenburg Road Jail behind bars Thursday. ...more

December 14, 2007

She wrote him letters, accepted his many phone calls and even gave him money, officials said. But that's not what put a nurse who works at Falkenburg Road Jail behind bars earlier today. ...more

December 13, 2007