Avon Park Police Officer Alberto Perez was out of jail Friday on a $6,000 bond following his second arrest Thursday for allegations of police misconduct. ...more

May 1, 2009

The Florida Department of Transportation is giving a heads-up to law enforcement officials and motorists about devices its engineers are placing on Tampa Bay area bridges: the machines are used to measure saltwater levels and pose no threat. ...more

April 30, 2009

A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy knew something was amiss about a backhoe chugging along in Gibsonton about 3 this morning, an affidavit states. The deputy pulled over the backhoe on Nundy Avenue just west of U.S. 41 South after noting the driver wasn't using slow-moving-vehicle indicators. Further investigation and a chat with the driver, Charles James Smith, 24, revealed the backhoe was stolen, an affidavit states. ...more

April 28, 2009

SEBRING Traffic was halted on South Highlands Avenue shortly after 3 p.m., Monday, as fire crews battled a large fire in brush near Fred Wild Elementary School in Sebring. ...more

April 28, 2009

A record number of people turned up Saturday to dispose of their old paint, household chemicals and electronics at a parking lot staffed by the city's Solid Waste Department. ...more

April 26, 2009

A man and a woman are charged with felony drug trafficking after police said the two tried to sell 50 Oxycontin pills to an undercover officer in a Walgreens parking lot. ...more

April 25, 2009

Hillsborough County deputies said they have charged five men with trafficking in more than 150 kilograms of cocaine, one of the sheriff's department's largest drug cases. ...more

April 23, 2009

Two men drove from Manatee County to the Wal-Mart on Broad Street Wednesday on the belief they were going to illegally buy 150 grams of the painkiller oxycodone. ...more

April 18, 2009

BROOKSVILLE - Two separate traffic stops yielded crack cocaine on Wednesday. ...more

April 16, 2009

A motorcycle crash on Interstate 275 near downtown Tampa Sunday night killed the driver and critically injured a passenger, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

April 13, 2009