Hillsborough deputies have released the identity of a man fatally shot outside a Citgo gas station Wednesday night. He is Anthony J. Prather, 25, of Tampa. ...more

November 12, 2009

An argument that began at a convenience store apparently sparked a drive-by shooting this month at Giddens Park. ...more

March 30, 2009

Citrus County sheriff's deputies are trying to piece together a puzzle involving a pajama-clad 8-year-old boy who was found running along a country road about a mile from his home in the middle of the night this week. They are looking for an unknown man who may have taken him. ...more

March 21, 2009

Manatee County sheriff's deputies continued searching this morning for a man who opened fire on two men and a woman in the 1200 block of 57th Avenue East in Bradenton shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday. ...more

February 13, 2009

A man in his mid-20s pretended to be a police officer and robbed a Bradenton man Friday, Bradenton police say. ...more

February 10, 2009

Polk County deputies arrested a fifth person Saturday in a shooting that left a 12-year-old bystander wounded in the leg. ...more

January 5, 2009

TAMPA A Plant City man stole items worth $1,430 and then sold them for $65, Hillsborough County deputies said. Dustin James Singletary, 23, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Plant City. ...more

December 4, 2008

A group of homeless people waiting in line for food outside city hall Tuesday night beat unconscious a man who had attacked two of their group for no apparent reason, St. Petersburg police said. The man was incoherent and could not be identified, St. Petersburg police spokesman George Kajtsa said. ...more

July 30, 2008

TAMPA - A woman took a 9 mm Smith & Wesson gun from another woman and fired it, striking an occupied home, police say. ...more

January 17, 2008

LAKE PLACID — A Lake Placid woman, who sheriff's detectives say threw her baby into the trash –– which led to a massive search at the county landfill –– was being held in the Highlands County Jail on a $150,000 bail Tuesday and for immigration authorities to pick her up. ...more

December 4, 2007