One man is recovering from being shot in the butt during a home invasion in Palm Harbor late Monday night. ...more

September 9, 2008

Detectives are looking for suspects in two separate armed robberies last week that appear to be related, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 8, 2008

Melissa White feared something was wrong this morning when she pulled up to the Hi Pines Mobile Home Park and her friend wasn't waiting outside with his coffee. Two men died in a fire there about 2 a.m. today, firefighters said. White, 32, of Seminole Heights, said she thinks her friend Paul Brinson, 65, was one of them, along with his roommate, Paul Price. ...more

August 29, 2008

TAMPA - Memo to bad guys: Take your cell phone with you after committing a crime. Tampa police say they made arrests in two crimes yesterday because people left their phones behind. ...more

July 15, 2008

TAMPA - Authorities think the same two men robbed a Shell station in Tampa and a Steak 'n Shake in Oldsmar. ...more

June 20, 2008

SEBRING — Detectives with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office have arrested the driver supposedly involved in the June 7 shooting death of a Lake Placid man and the shooting injury of a second man. Shane Ryan Fannin, 21, of 12075 Payne Road, Sebring, was arrested on charges Wednesday in connection with the murder of Walter Enrique Vilchez and attempted murder of Jose Franklin Escalante, at 242 Phoenix Ave., in Lake Placid. Fannin was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, and was being held without bond. ...more

June 18, 2008

SEBRING — In May 2007, after explicit trial testimony, an all-white, all-female jury of six found Julius Jamall "Gussy" Nixon, 21, of Sebring, guilty in the 2005 kidnapping and sexual assault of a teenaged couple. ...more

June 14, 2008

HOLIDAY - Pasco County deputies are asking for the public's help in their investigation of a lottery scratch-off ticket machine theft at a Sweetbay Supermarket. ...more

June 13, 2008

By the fourth game, Rafael Nadal had Roger Federer kicking the clay in frustration. By the second set, the normally stoic Federer was screaming at himself. ...more

June 9, 2008

PARIS - By the fourth game, Rafael Nadal had Roger Federer kicking the clay in frustration. By the second set, the normally stoic Federer was screaming at himself. ...more

June 8, 2008