OMAHA, Neb. - Two boys ages 15 and 11 were left at Nebraska hospitals over the weekend, the first youngsters surrendered under the state's new safe-haven law that allows caregivers to abandon children and teens as well as infants, officials said. ...more

September 16, 2008

The owner and managers of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant were charged Tuesday with more than 9,000 misdemeanors alleging they hired minors and in some cases had children younger than 16 handle dangerous equipment such as circular saws, meat grinders and power shears. ...more

September 10, 2008

TAMPA - A man shot and killed this morning by a plain-clothes officer was a bouncer at an Ybor City nightclub, police said. ...more

September 6, 2008

An auto burglary at the Tuscany Point Apartments last week has led to the discovery of a rash of connected auto burglaries in the West Shore area, with at least 20 vehicles broken into by the same people, police said. ...more

August 23, 2008

An auto burglary at the Tuscany Point Apartments last week has led to the discovery of a rash of connected auto burglaries in the West Shore area, police said, with at least 20 vehicles broken into by the same people. ...more

August 22, 2008

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer said she observed an active gopher tortoise burrow with bulldozer tread marks near it near the Sebring Wal-Mart as the property was being developed. A sign of a felony, she alleged late July, even though they're normally only filed as misdemeanors. ...more

August 7, 2008

A Lake Placid man was free on $3,000 bail Friday after deputies say he was arrested when they found him asleep with his wife and two young children in the same room and a silver tray with some marijuana within the children's reach. ...more

August 4, 2008

A 24-year-old Tampa man was arrested Wednesday night for sexually battering an emotionally handicapped 13-year-old girl, police say. ...more

July 31, 2008

Shortly after 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Jose Pizano slammed his 1985 white Buick into a TECO pole near the intersection of Gibsonton and Alavista drives, deputies say. But before they arrived, deputies say Pizano tried to climb out of the wrecked car — leaving behind his two children, 7 and 11. ...more

July 25, 2008

Bucs safety Donte Nicholson got into a scuffle with security guards outside a bar early Sunday and was shot with an electric stun gun twice before he was arrested, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

July 21, 2008