LAND O' LAKES - When school officials accused Philip Copeland's son of tossing a bottle out a school bus window on U.S. 41, Copeland asked to see the bus surveillance video that supposedly shows what the teenager did. ...more

February 21, 2009

Randy Nowak of Mulberry says a friend he loved like a brother manipulated him into hiring a hit man to kill an Internal Revenue Service revenue officer. ...more

December 17, 2008

As Randy Nowak was meeting with an undercover agent he thought was a hit man, the Internal Revenue Service officer Nowak wanted dead went into hiding, according to evidence presented this morning in Nowak's trial. ...more

December 16, 2008

TAMPA – Prosecutors don't want to tell John "Junior" Gotti about all the people who have turned on him. ...more

October 31, 2008

TAMPA - An officer with Tampa police's helicopter unit was reprimanded and given a "letter of counseling" after he made inappropriate comments in February when chasing a man in a stolen vehicle, authorities said. ...more

August 14, 2008

A circuit judge ruled Friday that Linda Bollea has the right to intervene in a lawsuit filed by her incarcerated son to stop the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office from releasing more recordings of her son's visits with family members. ...more

August 2, 2008

A circuit judge ruled today that Linda Bollea has the right to intervene in a lawsuit filed by her incarcerated son to stop the Pinellas sheriff's office from releasing more recordings of her son's visits with family members. ...more

August 1, 2008

Authorities are looking for two women who were seen bringing four children on a shoplifting trip to a Bealls department store on Route 54 in New Port Richey. The women were captured on store surveillance cameras as they entered the store, selected a large purse and began taking items from the men's and children's sections and putting them in the purse, according to an investigation report from the Pasco County Sheriff's Department. ...more

July 1, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — One tipster told police Denise Lee's death was a paid hit job. Others called police proclaiming psychic powers to describe what had happened to Lee or where to find her. Still others insisted they had details about Michael King's relationship to Lee. All of them were wrong. ...more

June 11, 2008

Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around massive U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a man speaking heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode," according to a video released Tuesday by the Pentagon. ...more

January 9, 2008