The grandmother of a 2-year-old Central Florida girl missing since early June said Monday that the mother, whom police say was jailed for not reporting the disappearance for more than a month, knows who has the toddler. ...more

July 21, 2008

A Pinellas County Sheriff's Office deputy has been suspended for three days because of tattoos he got after he was hired, according to a memorandum released today. ...more

July 17, 2008

Sheriff's investigators are looking into what they believe are related incidents of vandalism in the Lake Padgett Estates neighborhood. The latest to report damage is Robert Lovering, a lieutenant with the Tampa Police Department who lives in the neighborhood. Lovering told a Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputy that someone used golf balls to dent the front of his police vehicle while it was parked outside his house Sunday morning. ...more

July 9, 2008

DADE CITY - Police cleared solved two crimes Friday when a man already in jail on an armed robbery charge owned up confessed to burglarizing two homes earlier this month. ...more

June 28, 2008

Joel "Joker" Childers may think twice about borrowing a car with tinted windows. ...more

June 28, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — A firefighter was treated at a hospital after a sheriff's deputy accidentally stunned him with a Taser at a fire station. ...more

June 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A 41-year-old motorcyclist died today within hours of hitting a guardrail on the Seminole Boulevard onramp to Bay Pines Boulevard, according to the sheriff's office. ...more

June 16, 2008

TAMPA - The tinted windows of a 1998 Honda Accord, say deputies, led to the arrest of two men for trafficking in OxyContin and possessing 45 bogus $100 bills. ...more

May 21, 2008

A Polk County Sheriff's Office deputy was suspended without pay after she was arrested today on charges of battering her ex-girlfriend and falsely imprisoning her, said sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Rodgers. ...more

February 11, 2008

Some teachers work their entire careers and are not recognized for their efforts. But not Shari Storch. ...more

January 30, 2008