County fire officials are once again recommending that an advanced life-support ambulance be moved full time from a Lutz fire station to the much poorer minority community of Progress Village. ...more

January 22, 2009

Polk County sheriff's detectives are conducting a homicide investigation after the body of a man was found this morning in a pond in Frostproof. ...more

January 12, 2009

The shooting death of Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Nicholas Sottile on Jan. 12, 2007, "still doesn't seem real" to his brother, Jimmy. ...more

January 11, 2009

Emergency responders called this afternoon to a possible domestic disturbance upgraded the incident to a structure fire after the woman living at the home called 911 and told dispatchers her boyfriend was trying to set the house ablaze, authorities say. ...more

December 28, 2008

Firefighters battled blazes at two locations Friday morning in Hillsborough County. ...more

December 27, 2008

Firefighters from two agencies battled blazes at separate locations this morning in Hillsborough County. In both instances there was extensive damage but no injury. ...more

December 26, 2008

Nicholas Altamuro and Sharon Sprout share at least one characteristic - they're violent criminals. ...more

December 24, 2008

The meter reader who last week discovered the remains of a small child near missing toddler Caylee Anthony's house had called the sheriff's office on three consecutive days in August asking deputies to respond to the scene, a sheriff's spokesman said Thursday. ...more

December 18, 2008

Not long before she was killed, Jennifer Johnson made a 911 call from the trunk of her own car as it traveled along Interstate 4 through Plant City. ...more

December 17, 2008

Largo police shot and wounded a 36-year-old man this morning after he pointed a knife and then a replica of a handgun at them, officials said. ...more

December 6, 2008