Two men broke into the All About Puppies store on North Dale Mabry Highway on Tuesday, police say, and stole two puppies - a brown and black English bulldog and a black Puggle, a Pug/beagle hybrid. ...more

December 8, 2008

When Hillsborough County Animal Services investigators went to the Plant City home of Herminio Soto, he told them he could starve his old dogs if he wanted to, investigators say. ...more

September 19, 2008

After receiving an anonymous call about emaciated dogs, Hillsborough County Animal Services investigators went to the Plant City home of Herminio Soto and found two dogs that were yellow when they should have been white because they were kept in cages. ...more

September 18, 2008

Prosecutors filed 46 counts of animal cruelty against a Tarpon Springs woman who had more than 100 dogs in her Ranch Road home. ...more

August 7, 2008

Detectives have referred to the Pinellas County State Attorney's Office animal cruelty charges against a woman accused of abandoning two puppies in a parking lot, Clearwater police said. ...more

August 5, 2008

Detectives have referred to the Pinellas County State Attorney's Office animal cruelty charges against a woman accused of abandoning two puppies in a parking lot, Clearwater police said. ...more

August 4, 2008

Two chickens, a pitbull mix and her two puppies were living outside a duplex within inches of feces and urine, according to Hillsborough County Animal Services spokeswoman. ...more

July 16, 2008

A child found two puppies abandoned in a Clearwater parking lot Sunday afternoon. ...more

July 1, 2008

TAMPA - A child found two puppies abandoned in a Clearwater parking lot Sunday afternoon. The male puppy was fine, but a female pup was dead, having suffered head trauma, according to a spokeswoman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals spokeswoman. ...more

June 30, 2008

SEBRING — Sebring resident Cynthia Hearn picked up a free month's rent courtesy of Riverside Bank. A presentation to the winner of Riverside Bank's "Live One Month Free on Us" sweepstakes was held recently at Riverside's Sebring office. "I can't believe it," said Hearn. "I can really use the additional funds this month." "All of us at Riverside Bank are excited about helping out Ms. Hearn and her two puppies," said Sophia Peavy, Riverside's Sebring office manager. "By eliminating the responsibility of a month's rent payment, Cynthia can use her funds toward paying off other bills or whatever else she wishes to use the money for. It's Riverside's way of showing we care about the citizens in our home towns, especially in this economy. " ...more

February 23, 2008