LAKELAND - Detectives arrested a Riverview woman today who is accused of leaving a newborn baby in a trash bin in Lakeland two years ago, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

May 22, 2008

A Tampa father is suspected of shaking his 3-week-old daughter vigorously, causing brain damage, according to an arrest report. ...more

May 10, 2008

A Tampa father is suspected of shaking his 3-week-old daughter vigorously, causing her brain damage, according to an arrest report. ...more

May 9, 2008

It costs taxpayers about $925 when police arrest a homeless person for drinking beer in public or sleeping behind a church, a Herald-Tribune analysis shows. ...more

February 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A St. Petersburg man scuttled off on foot after striking two cars with his pickup Wednesday evening, critically injuring one man, and later was seen running away from his ex-wife's house, police say. ...more

February 14, 2008

A motorcyclist from Tampa was seriously injured this morning when his 1975 Honda 750 hit a concrete median in the Clearwater area, a Clearwater Police Department release states. ...more

January 20, 2008

CLEARWATER In gambling, the old adage is, the house always wins. Not this time, police say ...more

January 16, 2008

TAMPA - Jessica Sierra blamed four or five vodkas and an empty stomach. Before her tirade was over, Tampa police said, Sierra fought police trying to keep her out of an Ybor City club, scrapped with a friend on the street outside, vomited in a patrol car then vomited again, threatened action by the mayor, kicked one officer and propositioned another, and, still combative, ended up in isolation at the jail. ...more

December 3, 2007

They were going to be kings of Clearwater. But at that crucial moment when drinking buddies Craig Hill and Todd Payne were to make the leap from the summit of the Memorial Causeway Bridge to the dark waters of the Intracoastal Waterway below, there was a glitch in their impromptu plan, authorities say. ...more

November 27, 2007

Disabled by strokes, mental illness or the frailties of old age, residents of the Daphne Jones Boarding Home arrived at their most vulnerable. ...more

November 2, 2007