Melissa Murrhee struck her ex-roommate in the face with a wooden stake early Sunday morning, Tampa police say. When the ex-roommate got the stake out of her hand, Murrhee's boyfriend punched him, according to a police report. ...more

October 6, 2008

Lonnie Watts didn't want to go to jail, so used his car to strike one of the deputies trying to arrest him on a drug paraphernalia warrant early Friday morning, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

September 26, 2008

BRADENTON – "I was somewhere else" is the only defense offered by former Lakewood Ranch High quarterback Timothy Brooks, who faces charges he fatally shot a man in mid-July. ...more

September 23, 2008

The 30-year-old son of a Florida congressman was charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after federal authorities found people hidden in his truck during a border inspection Sunday in Arizona. ...more

September 16, 2008

It was after he was forced into the back seat of a car at gunpoint Sunday night that kidnapping victim Gregory Longley saw his opportunity. ...more

September 9, 2008

Erika Williams turned 20 on Monday and wanted to get a new tattoo to celebrate. So she called a close friend to take her out. ...more

September 3, 2008

The Sarasota Police Department is investigating a double homicide this morning. ...more

September 2, 2008

A 37-year-old Port Richey woman was charged Friday with child abuse, drug possession and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit after she lit up a marijuana cigarette outside a grocery store, police said. ...more

August 3, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY A 37-year-old Port Richey woman was charged Friday with child abuse, drug possession and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit after she left two children in a car outside a grocery store. ...more

August 2, 2008

A 38-year-old man showed up at his former girlfriend's workplace this morning armed with two handguns, police say. The man, Neil Marshall James, 28, surrendered to police later in the day. ...more

July 30, 2008