Bucking a statewide trend, overall crime in Tampa dropped 8.6 percent in the first half of this year compared with the first half of 2006, statistics released Tuesday show. ...more

November 7, 2007

The number of crimes committed in Florida edged up slightly in the first half of 2007, bucking a yearslong trend of declining crime in the state, according to a report released Friday. ...more

November 4, 2007

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office was awarded a $1 million federal grant to buy video surveillance cameras to be mounted in high crime neighborhoods and other equipment. The grant also will cover training and buy cameras for jails. ...more

October 30, 2007

When Shirley Ives heard the doorbell ring, the 82-year-old widow got up from her chair, took an ice pick she had hidden in a vase of plastic flowers, and held it behind her back. She looked through the peephole, pushing on tiptoes to raise a body shrunken by osteoporosis. ...more

October 10, 2007