TAMPA - Three law enforcement agencies in Polk County are working together to solve a string of burglaries this month that targeted retail stores. ...more

May 21, 2008

BRADENTON - Detectives are looking for a man who they say is connected with an April 29 home invasion robbery. ...more

May 20, 2008

A Lake Wales police detective was arrested late Thursday and accused of exchanging sexually charged text messages with a 16-year-old Lake Wales High School student working in the police cadet program, which he coordinated, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement report. ...more

May 9, 2008

Longtime Mayor Roy Pierce can carve another notch in his belt. Pierce, 58, was re-elected to the office Tuesday night for another one-year term. ...more

May 8, 2008

Family members and police were relieved but frustrated to learn that a man who disappeared Feb. 29 from his job in Plant City after cashing a large check left on his own volition and is living in Oklahoma. ...more

May 7, 2008

Jesse L. Martin is putting down his "Law & Order" detective's shield, and Anthony Anderson is in negotiations to pick it up. ...more

February 25, 2008

Three weeks before Timothy Scott Riggs was shot in the chest and killed outside his Clearfield, Ky., mobile home, he awoke in a Fort Lauderdale motel room to find a friend dead, his father said Tuesday. ...more

February 20, 2008

DADE CITY -- Three weeks before Timothy Scott Riggs was shot in the chest and killed outside his Clearfield, Ky. mobile home, he awoke in a Fort Lauderdale motel room to find a friend dead, his father said today. ...more

February 19, 2008

A 33-year-old patient is accused of raping another patient in the behavioral health wing of Community Hospital, according to a police report. ...more

February 19, 2008

SEBRING — A countywide underage alcohol sale sting operation conducted this weekend showed that of 38 businesses checked, 26 did not sell alcohol to minors, said Highlands County Sheriff Susan Benton in a press release Tuesday. An underage operative was used to enter the businesses and try to buy alcohol. Most didn't take the bait. "We congratulate these companies and their staffs for helping us work toward the vision of a 'Safer Highlands County' supporting our youth by reducing the availability of alcohol," she added. Investigators have submitted affidavits to the state attorney's office on charges of sale of alcohol to underage persons on the 12 employees who reportedly sold to the minors. Each could potentially face a second-degree misdemeanor charge. The mission of the Highlands County Community Coalition Against Substance Abuse, is to organize, inform, educate, and unite our community in its efforts to reduce substance abuse, Benton wrote. ...more

February 8, 2008