A federal jury has ruled that New York City police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a professional clown who left a suspicious device that turned out to be a balloon inflator inside a coffee shop. ...more

November 19, 2009

Sylvia Grant testified her then-husband, Joseph Coleman, burst into her house, beat her with a gun and shot her in the neck. ...more

November 5, 2009

The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy was 64; the inmate was 40 years younger, and mad. ...more

November 4, 2009

The Hernando County mosquito control division has announced a sentinel chicken, located west of U.S. 19 and north of The Heather subdivision, has tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus – the first case in the county. ...more

November 2, 2009

A Pasco County jury deliberated two hours Tuesday before finding Larkin Derks III guilty of robbery in the February holdup of a Bank of America branch. ...more

October 1, 2009

A Pasco County jury Tuesday deliberated two hours before finding Larkin Derks III guilty of robbery in the February holdup of a Bank of America ...more

September 30, 2009

Police are looking for a man who confronted a female student in a high school bathroom, then was seen 90 minutes later acting suspiciously on another high school campus. ...more

September 11, 2009

A 29-year-old homeless hitchhiker is accused of beating an elderly man who gave him a ride from a liquor store before stealing his car. ...more

September 2, 2009

The woman who took a gun-shaped cigarette lighter into the Hillsborough County Courthouse last week, unintentionally causing an evacuation, will not be charged, Hillsborough County deputies said. ...more

August 13, 2009

After-hours surveillance inside a Subway sandwich shop netted an arrest early Thursday - a 23-year-old man suspected of two previous burglaries at the restaurant. Zephyrhills Police Department detectives were inside the sandwich shop at 5406 Gall Blvd., when, at 1:47 a.m., Robert O'Neal Patterson used a hammer to break a window and enter, according to the report. ...more

April 23, 2009