Polk County deputies have arrested 24 men during a three-day undercover prostitution operation. ...more

February 18, 2009

Police have finished working on a weeklong undercover effort to combat prostitution along U.S. 19. ...more

July 28, 2008

Pasco County sheriff's deputies arrested nearly a dozen men Friday in an undercover sting aimed at prostitution. ...more

July 26, 2008

CLEARWATER -- Police cracking down on prostitution in the downtown area netted seven arrests this week. Officers posed as decoys during the day on Monday and Tuesday on Cleveland Street, Gulf to Bay Boulevard and North Fort Harrison Avenue. ...more

May 7, 2008

LARGO - A man and two women were arrested Tuesday evening on charges they illegally passed themselves off as licensed massage therapists and then performed the massages in the nude or offered their clients sex. ...more

January 23, 2008

TAMPA - Longtime WTVT anchorman Hugh Smith died Sunday at Palms of Pasadena Hospital of cancer. He was 73. ...more

December 17, 2007

LEALMAN - Authorities arrested five people during a prostitution sting at 50th Ave. N. and 34th St. on Friday. The arrests were made between 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. as part of a six-week enforcement initiative in the unincorporated area north of St. Petersburg, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

November 3, 2007