Every now and then a person in handcuffs gets riled up enough to kick out the windows of a deputy's cruiser. ...more

September 25, 2009

A Spring Hill woman was arrested Tuesday on charges that she locked a teenage boy in a bathroom for two years and beat him with a plank of wood. The 16-year-old managed to escape Monday and go to a neighbor's house for help. A responding deputy said he found the boy covered in bruises and cuts. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Spring Hill woman has been arrested on charges saying she locked a teenage boy in a bathroom for two years and beat him with a plank of wood. ...more

February 12, 2009

A tale of a Dutch family coping with the upheavals of German occupation during World War II. Third of four parts. ...more

January 16, 2009

BRADENTON – "I was somewhere else" is the only defense offered by former Lakewood Ranch High quarterback Timothy Brooks, who faces charges he fatally shot a man in mid-July. ...more

September 23, 2008

Dig It, No Sweat True Temper's EZ Posthole Digger has a new, patent-pending blade design that's supposed to take some of the muscle out of digging a hole. ...more

September 18, 2008

A Sebring woman is in jail after she reportedly tried to swing and kick at a deputy and spat on the officer while he responded to a trespass complaint Wednesday night on Lawrence Avenue in Sebring, according to a sheriff's office report. ...more

August 14, 2008