If you're going to be sipping cocktails tonight, make sure you have a designated driver. ...more

June 26, 2009

New Port Richey police officers and Pasco sheriff's deputies will be conducting a checkpoint to find drivers under the influence of alcohol. The checkpoint will be set up in the vicinity of Congress Street and Pine Hill Road from 8 to 10 p.m. Drivers will be randomly pulled over. ...more

June 25, 2009

A New York janitor found himself holding a policeman's gun when the officer needed a free hand to handcuff a suspect. ...more

May 23, 2009

Nine crew members working on a Nicolas Cage film in New York's Times Square have been treated for minor injuries after another car crash near the movie set. ...more

May 6, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies are on the hunt for a woman connected with a robbery at Superior Bank, 4842 Sun City Center Blvd., today at 12:23 p.m. ...more

April 22, 2009

The crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in New York set off a flurry of emotions in the Tampa Bay area. The pilot, Marvin Dean Renslow, lived in Lutz in Pasco County with his wife Sandy and their two children. Passenger Clay Yarber, a wounded Vietnam War hero, resided in Pinellas County until last year. ...more

February 13, 2009

7:05 p.m.: The North Sarasota Get Out the Vote Coalition fired up the speakers and started preparing a celebration hours before the polls closed. ...more

November 4, 2008

A 23-year-old Tampa man was charged with felony attempted murder, accused of trying to run over a woman with a taxi after he nearly bit off her ear, an affidavit states. Christian Omar Sanchez was held without bail today at the Orient Road Jail after his arrest about 2:50 this morning, jail records show. ...more

October 31, 2008

Cradling their 22-week-old baby, Chiamaka Obinka wept Monday as she wondered aloud why anyone would kill her husband, cab driver Cyril Obinka. ...more

May 5, 2008

A teenager is accused of stabbing her ex-boyfriend's rabbit with a pair of scissors and tossing the animal on the floor, Manatee County sheriff's deputies said today. ...more

January 10, 2008