The woman who took a gun-shaped cigarette lighter into the Hillsborough County Courthouse last week, unintentionally causing an evacuation, will not be charged, Hillsborough County deputies said. ...more

August 13, 2009

Authorities say the man charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will likely survive the injuries he suffered when other museum guards returned fire. ...more

June 14, 2009

Madonna dashed from the airport to an impoverished Malawi village to discuss a school she is planning to build, saying nothing to the hordes of reporters on her trail Sunday about whether she is planning to start the process of adopting a second Malawian child. ...more

March 30, 2009

Like much of Cuba's work force, Alfredo Congas is going gray. ...more

March 27, 2009

Police arrested a man at the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit bus terminal downtown Monday after a security guard there saw the man masturbating, an affidavit states. ...more

March 17, 2009

Polk County detectives said a Winter Haven man presented himself to people as a law enforcement officer, searched them, took their money and sprayed them with pepper spray. ...more

February 20, 2009

A one-time security guard was convicted today of murder, kidnapping and other charges for his role in the 2007 hijacking of the "Joe Cool" charter boat at sea and killing of four people whose bodies were never found. ...more

February 19, 2009

Elalia Walker faced a horrible decision, prosecutors told jurors this morning: stay in a speeding van with the man who abducted and beat her or jump. ...more

February 17, 2009

Polk County Sheriff's Office deputies said they shut down an illegal radio station Wednesday afternoon in Winter Haven. ...more

February 11, 2009

The minimum wage in Florida rose 42 cents to $7.21 per hour recently, igniting a debate over whether the increased pay will help workers or whether it will hurt the economy because small businesses simply can't afford to pay it. ...more

January 31, 2009