Two days after attacking a 74-year-old Lakeland woman, a pack of potentially rabid raccoons remains on the loose. ...more

October 5, 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 Detroit man has been sentenced to at least two years in prison for stealing a woman's car after skipping out on the check during their first date. ...more

October 2, 2009

A man already in prison on a robbery charge has been indicted in the fatal shooting of a woman cab driver last year. ...more

October 2, 2009

A man has pleaded guilty to smuggling songbirds into Los Angeles from Vietnam by hiding them under his pants. ...more

September 29, 2009

Polk County sheriff's deputies have accused a Winter Haven man of having images of child pornography on his iPod. ...more

September 27, 2009

Melbourne police say a 37-year-old woman tried to sell her 6-year-old boy for gas money. ...more

September 26, 2009

Polk County man arrested, accused of child pornography for having illegal images on his iPod. ...more

September 26, 2009

Investigators identified the victim of a home invasion this morning as 55-year-old Paul William Proto. Police responded to a report of a home invasion at 9405 N. 10th St. shortly after midnight today. After the shooting, a suspect took off in the victim's car, a 1996 white Cadillac Seville, police said. ...more

September 23, 2009

The husband of a woman found dead in a Florida apartment along with her five young children boarded a flight for Haiti, and police said Sunday the couple had a history of domestic violence calls to their homes over the past decade. ...more

September 20, 2009