It was the second day of a week-long training seminar in Stuart, but a Highlands County Sheriff's Office bloodhound went right from class and into the field to help nab a purse snatcher. ...more

November 20, 2009

A ballistics test couldn't officially determine which gun fired a bullet that struck a Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy in the neck last month. The bullet is from the same type of gun the deputy used. ...more

November 17, 2009

Joe Harris Sullivan was 13 in 1989 when he committed the crime that would put him away for life without possibility of parole: He raped an elderly woman. He had committed 17 other crimes in the two years before the brutal attack and his trial as an adult. ...more

November 16, 2009

The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate is 40 years his junior. ...more

November 5, 2009

Shortly after he burst into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint, taking a laptop computer, a man tried selling the piece of electronics equipment to someone in her neighborhood, St. Petersburg police say. But the would-be buyer grew suspicious and took a picture of the man, police say. Now investigators hope that by releasing the buyer's photograph they might get a tip as to who he is. ...more

October 28, 2009

A second suspect has been arrested in a home invasion-robbery in which a sheriff's deputy was shot in the neck. ...more

October 28, 2009

Three men entered an apartment and punched another man and hit him with a barbell before leaving with his wallet and money, police said. ...more

October 20, 2009

An 80-year-old Ohio man is recovering from a week in which he was beaten during a home invasion and then shot while trying to learn about guns. ...more

October 3, 2009

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office has charged a Palmetto man with murder in the wake of a fatal home invasion Thursday night. Lamont Yarn, 19, who has no permanent address, was shot in the upper body during the incident at a home on Third Avenue Drive East in Palmetto. ...more

October 3, 2009

A mother and son are dead and a third person is injured after a home invasion in Palmetto late Thursday night. ...more

October 2, 2009