America must recognize the fact that Mexico is in collapse. It is controlled by war lords just as China was in the early 1900s. The last 60 years have been very trying and costly for the United States. It has been a highway for illegal drugs and illegal movement of people into the United States, from all over the world. We have troops on the ground all around the world to help those nations from killing each other, yet we are ignoring our neighbor to the south whose death rate is not acceptable; in fact, it is reaching into the United States. ...more

February 14, 2009

'SWAT' Team Games Land Three Men In Jail BROOKSVILLE - A trio of young men armed with a rifle broke into an abandoned mobile home on Thursday to play "SWAT" team. ...more

February 13, 2009

Law and Order. ...more

February 13, 2009

The paramour of a woman accused of brutally beating a teenager and keeping him locked in a bathroom for two years was arrested Thursday on similar charges. ...more

February 13, 2009

Bruised, bleeding and battered, the teen struggled in the dark to free his wrists of the packing tape that bound them together. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Spring Hill woman was arrested Tuesday on charges that she locked a teenage boy in a bathroom for two years and beat him with a plank of wood. The 16-year-old managed to escape Monday and go to a neighbor's house for help. A responding deputy said he found the boy covered in bruises and cuts. ...more

February 12, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Seventeen dogs are safe after a fire broke out in their Land O' Lakes kennel early Wednesday . ...more

February 12, 2009

A dozen dogs are safe this morning after a fire broke out in their Land O' Lakes kennel. ...more

February 11, 2009

$20,000 in goods stolen by teen from aunt and uncle, deputies say ...more

February 10, 2009

Hillsborough Fire Rescue workers are investigating a fire that caused extensive damage to a home in Lutz on Sunday night. A neighbor called about 9 p.m. to report the fire at the single-story home at 18410 Tomlinson Drive. It took firefighters a half-hour to get the flames in the attic under control, Capt. Bruce Delk said. No one was injured. ...more

February 9, 2009