The answers may lie within the black Converse shoes. A 62-year-old man told the Pasco County Sheriff's Office that someone broke in to his home early Sunday, and more than a dozen weapons, including a samurai sword and firearms, were stolen. ...more

February 19, 2008

A 57-year-old St. Petersburg woman is accused of binding an 8-year-old boy's hands and legs with duct tape, and flogging him, an arrest report states. ...more

February 17, 2008

Riverview, Running Back COLLEGE CHOICE: Central Michigan ...more

February 5, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail Friday, charged in connection with a reported armed burglary, armed assault and kidnapping of a Sebring woman. Chad Anthony Martin, 27, of 7414 County Road 17 S., Sebring, was booked in Wednesday on charges of burglary of a dwelling, structure or conveyance while armed, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and kidnapping to commit or facilitate a felony. On Nov. 8, sheriff's investigators met with a Sebring woman who reported that at about 11 p.m. Nov. 7, in the 3000 block of Sparkling Drive, in Sebring, she heard a noise of her kitchen door opening. She looked out her bedroom door and spotted two people standing in her living room, the report stated. She locked the bedroom door and tried to get out through her laundry room door, which connected to her bedroom. As she tried to get out through her back porch, she reported she was grabbed by her hair by a man she knew only as Chad. ...more

February 2, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail Thursday, charged in connection with a reported armed burglary, armed assault and kidnapping of a Sebring woman. ...more

January 31, 2008

TAMPA - Two men have been arrested and a third is wanted on warrants after police found a stash of cocaine and marijuana in a Central Tampa home, according to arrest reports. ...more

January 15, 2008

More home-schoolers banding together to expand the classroom beyond the living room. ...more

January 6, 2008

When I was a child, Christmas at our house revolved around the tree. It wasn't Christmas until the tree went up, and the holidays were not over till the tree came down. In that respect, not much has changed; the tree is still the focal point of our holiday trimmings. But these days it fights for attention with one other decoration that is slowly taking over the spotlight, and my living room – my Dickens Village. What started in 1995 with just one little ceramic house, The Old Curiosity Shop, has grown into an entire Victorian town. The display now has 12 buildings, including some with moving parts. All of them are lighted and one even plays music. The village also has 10 trees, a road, a bridge, and a town square complete with mailbox, stone fences and a dozen different sets of tiny Victorian people doing everything from selling newspapers to lighting the street lamps and peeking in windows. My village grows every year, because friends and family are continually buying new pieces for it. They know that village "stuff" is a gift I'll always love. ...more

December 30, 2007

Tracy L. Traver stood behind three men who forced their way into a man's home, beat him and stole two garbage bags filled with Christmas gifts from his living room floor, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

December 27, 2007

Tracy L. Traver stood behind three men who forced their way into a man's home, beat him and stole two garbage bags filled with Christmas gifts from his living room floor, Hillsborough County deputies say ...more

December 26, 2007