Police today arrested one of two men suspected of committing at least five burglaries in downtown Tampa and Channelside earlier this month. ...more

February 21, 2009

Floridians have requested 187,162 concealed-weapon permit applications over the last six months - an 82 percent increase compared with a year earlier. ...more

February 19, 2009

Deputy Amanda Dettman hears many excuses when pulling people over for speeding, but the most common one references the call of nature. ...more

February 16, 2009

A federal judge on Friday approved the city's $150,000 settlement to the family of a man killed during a 2005 traffic stop. ...more

February 14, 2009

TAMPA – Detectives are searching for two thieves who may be working together to burglarize offices in downtown Tampa and the Channel District. The men are suspects in at least five burglaries. ...more

February 13, 2009

A Bartow man accused of breaking into a convenience store early Wednesday morning and taking more than $3,000 in cigarettes is connected to at least four other similar robberies that occurred in Hillsborough County since June, according to criminal arrest affidavits. ...more

February 11, 2009

Armed with graph after graph showing improvements in the police department's performance, St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon this afternoon tried to beat back the impression among some city council members that St. Petersburg has become less safe. ...more

February 5, 2009

After about an hour of deliberating, a Pinellas jury Wednesday evening found a 27-year-old Miami man guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a friend in 2005. ...more

February 5, 2009

A ninth-grader at Springstead High School admitted to detectives Wednesday of "dozens" of vehicle break-ins over Christmas break. ...more

January 23, 2009

Starting today, the Highlands County Sheriff's Office's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is changing its mission. ...more

January 14, 2009