U.S. immigration officials have paid $47,500 to a Haitian woman who was denied treatment for uterine fibroid tumors while she was held in immigration custody for seven months in Florida, her attorneys said Friday. ...more

December 20, 2009

Polk County deputies have concluded an 11-month crack cocaine trafficking investigation with charges against 60 people, some of whom have ties to violent crime, according to authorities. ...more

December 19, 2009

Polk County deputies have concluded a large-scale crack cocaine trafficking investigation with charges against 60 people, some of whom have ties to violent crime, authorities say. ...more

December 18, 2009

Joe Harris Sullivan was 13 in 1989 when he committed the crime that would put him away for life without possibility of parole: He raped an elderly woman. He had committed 17 other crimes in the two years before the brutal attack and his trial as an adult. ...more

November 16, 2009

I have noticed an alarming trend in recent news. There seems to be an increase in violent crime, especially crimes against women. Even more alarming is the fact that many of these crimes go unreported, and when they are reported it is all too often women who have taken action, while men stood by refusing to get involved. ...more

November 8, 2009

Peno Hardesty of New Port Richey says the whole community must be heroes in effort to prevent rape. ...more

April 22, 2009

A Florida Congresswoman is calling out Forbes magazine for including Miami in its list of Top 10 Most Miserable Cities in the country. ...more

February 13, 2009

My computer has various sounds, which automatically play when some action, event, or mistake has taken place. ...more

February 11, 2009

Monday will be the second anniversary of a tragic time in our county. It's the date State Trooper Sgt. Nick Sottile was shot down along U.S. 27 north of Lake Placid. It's a date that those who knew Sottile, and those who did not, were in shock at the brutality that happened that afternoon against a man known and loved in his community. ...more

January 11, 2009

A federal magistrate is recommending that a Tampa man charged with being part of a Gambino crime family conspiracy be tried along with other defendants accused in the conspiracy. James V. Cadicamo was arrested in August along with four other men charged with participating in a vast racketeering conspiracy under the umbrella of the Gambino crime family. At the same time, John A. "Junior" Gotti was named in a separate, similar indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Tampa. ...more

January 6, 2009