SEBRING — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office, along with other law enforcement agencies in the county and the state, will be warning and ticketing motorists who break the the Move Over Law. The week-long enforcement is scheduled for June 23 through June 29, Sheriff Susan Benton announced in a press release. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is coordinating it, and Florida Highway Patrol troopers also will be involved. ...more

June 19, 2008

SEFFNER - A man who refused to stop his vehicle for Florida Highway Patrol troopers early Tuesday morning fled on foot and was found hiding in a tree, according to an arrest affidavit. ...more

June 18, 2008

Driving along Interstate 75 is about to get safer. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Friday kicked off its "Guard Your Life -Drive Alert On I-75" safety campaign aimed at reducing deaths and crashes along that busy road. ...more

June 17, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist's veto Monday of a key transportation bill escalated the feud with fellow Republican Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, the departing House speaker. ...more

June 17, 2008

FDOT hopes to reduce head-on crashes. ...more

June 16, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY - Raymond A. Neumann, the tanker truck driver critically injured when his rig plunged from a bridge and exploded on U.S. 301, died this afternoon at Tampa General Hospital, a family member said. ...more

June 7, 2008

A 45-year-old Port Richey man was arrested Tuesday, accused of a hit-and-run accident that sent an 11-year-old girl to a hospital. ...more

June 5, 2008

LARGO - Florida Highway Patrol troopers found a missing 81-year-old man with Alzheimer's safe in his disabled car on Alligator Alley this morning. ...more

June 1, 2008

A 43-year-old Brooksville man was killed early this morning when he lost control of his truck on Ridge Road and it overturned. Stephen M. Jones, of 7063 Hope Hill Road, was driving east in his 2001 Chevrolet on Ridge Road when he had trouble negotiating a curve in the road, spun out and then overturned, a Florida Highway Patrol report states. ...more

May 27, 2008

SAFETY HARBOR - Brooke Bollea, daughter of former wrestler Hulk Hogan, was involved in an automobile accident Sunday afternoon when another driver lost control of his car and clipped the front of Bollea's Mercedes, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

May 25, 2008