A U.S. marshal who shot a suspect last month did so accidentally after colliding with the suspect with his gun drawn during a chase, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ...more

November 19, 2008

A 20-year-old man wanted on warrants for violating probation struggled with deputies as he was arrested Monday night and was stunned a total of four times — twice with pepper spray and twice with a Taser, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

November 17, 2008

A Largo man is accused of molesting two girls, ages 7 and 8, while babysitting them this year, Tampa police said. ...more

November 4, 2008

Luis Fidel Garcia, a felon, entered a Tampa home Saturday morning with a black semiautomatic pistol and wound up shooting two people with one bullet, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

November 3, 2008

PNC Financial Services Group said Friday that it is acquiring National City Corp. for $5.58 billion in one of the first concrete signs of how banks could use fresh investments from a government bailout program. ...more

October 25, 2008

A man shot and wounded by a deputy U.S. marshal Thursday had been sought on felony drug warrants from Tampa police, an official said today. ...more

October 17, 2008

Lakeland police have arrested a man they say was involved in a home improvement scam that targeted residents of a retirement community. ...more

October 13, 2008

Tampa International Airport learned from Canada customs that Robert Christianson had warrants for his arrest and was traveling on a Delta flight, TIA police say. ...more

October 13, 2008

A 33-year-old man is being held without bail today, accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in Tampa, police say. Damion Robert Collins of Richmond, Va., arrived at the Orient Road Jail on Monday after being extradited from Grimes County, Texas, jail records show. He was arrested in Texas on five warrants charging him with felony sexual battery on a victim younger than 12. ...more

October 7, 2008

Why is it that some people are so hung up on the race issue that cannot be objective? In his latest letter, Oct. 3, Decaris T. Jones, Sr. again raises the race issue. Why doesn't he forget the color bit and ask himself these questions: ...more

October 6, 2008