TAMPA - A federal jury today found the fourth and final defendant guilty in the 1998 murder of a Haines City Police officer, wrapping up the decade-old case. ...more

June 17, 2008

Two employees of Charlotte County's 911 call center are being punished after an internal investigation into the handling of a call concerning a North Port woman who was later found dead, Sheriff John Davenport announced today. ...more

February 15, 2008

PINELLAS PARK - Traffic was snarled at 49th Street and 118th Avenue North after a garbage truck overturned there about 8:15 a.m. today, police said. ...more

February 14, 2008

Did you ever want to know how fast a police officer was driving on a particular day? ...more

January 22, 2008

LARGO - Did you ever want to know how fast a police officer was driving on a particular day? Now you can find out if he works for the St. Petersburg Police Department, the Clearwater Police Department or the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 21, 2008

All day Friday, to investigators and relatives, the situation made no sense. On their minds was Denise Amber Lee, 21, of North Port, daughter of a law enforcement veteran and a married stay-at-home mom. She liked posting pictures and video on My-Space of her 2005 wedding and her two sons, showing off her infant's hiccups and his 2-year-old brother dancing around in a diaper. ...more

January 19, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Two teenagers were arrested Wednesday on charges they stole a car from an elderly pair at gunpoint and then led police on a chase that involved several minor wrecks, authorities say. ...more

January 17, 2008

Polk County sheriff's Deputy Jack "Carlton" Turner's voice over the department radio betrayed the horrifying scope of disaster unfolding around him on Interstate 4. ...more

January 13, 2008

TAMPA - Deputy Jack "Carlton" Turner's voice over the department radio betrayed the horrifying scope of disaster unfolding around him on Interstate 4. "I'm having vehicles exploding all around me at this time," he said frantically near the end of the transmission recorded that morning and released by the sheriff's office on Friday. ...more

January 12, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Jennifer Oswald's plan to serve her neighborhood as part of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Volunteer Citizen Patrol will have to wait. ...more

January 3, 2008