Austin Smith removed a piece of glass from his back Monday night, almost a month after he was thrown through the windshield of a convertible in a horrific crash. ...more

May 10, 2008

Financial pains for survivor of four-car crash. ...more

May 9, 2008

There are cretins, there are cowards, there are rats who walk like men. And then there is Larry Patterson Jr. ...more

February 22, 2008

SEBRING — Photographs from an automated teller machine were used to identify a Sebring man and connect him to 10 car burglaries in the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring subdivision in September. Thomas Bernard Nelson, 18, of 5109 Sturgeon Ave., Sebring, was booked Thursday on charges of two counts of credit card thefts, five counts of grand theft $300 or more but less than $5,000, fraudulent use of a credit card more than two times in six months, 10 counts of burglary of a structure or conveyance while unarmed and three counts of petty theft. Sheriff's investigators prepared seven separate arrest reports listing the instances of car-fishing-type vehicle burglaries, they say, were committed between Sept. 19 and Sept. 20. ...more

February 11, 2008

TAMPA - Rescue workers transported a woman to a local hospital after the Ford Taurus station wagon she was in hit a concrete barrier in downtown Tampa. ...more

February 7, 2008

LARGO - Police are looking for two men in connection with thefts of coins from machines at Laundromats and carwashes. ...more

February 4, 2008

Barack Obama has not made it easy for his Florida supporters. Like other leading Democratic presidential candidates, Obama has refused to campaign here. His staff ignores the grass-roots Florida organizations backing him. And his campaign recently declared that Florida's voters "have no bearing on the Democratic nomination contest." ...more

January 21, 2008

TAMPA I flick on the blue and red flashing overhead lights of a Tampa police car at the intersection of Alert Avenue and Careful Way. ...more

January 16, 2008

A Miami police officer was found shot to death in an unmarked patrol car riddled with bullet holes early Tuesday, becoming South Florida's fourth law enforcement officer killed in recent months. ...more

January 9, 2008

Tavaris Michael McKinnie entered Claude Lee Kegler's life by boarding a bus Kegler drove on weekends. ...more

December 21, 2007