Vincent Eurice spent four hours Monday sifting through thousands of items sprawling across the parking lot of the sheriff's office. ...more

May 6, 2008

A two-alarm fire was under control in less than hour today and did not threaten a nearby Eagle Lake elementary school, Polk County Fire Rescue officials said. ...more

May 5, 2008

Cinco de Mayo. Around here it's less a holiday than an excuse to stretch a long weekend through Monday. It's another reason to fire up the grill and sit outside in the prequel to another Florida summer. ...more

May 5, 2008

Police acting on an informant's tip found one of Colombia's main cocaine traffickers hiding in a tractor-trailer's secret compartment - just days after police killed his twin brother, authorities said. ...more

May 3, 2008

A Department of Transportation worker was killed about 12:15 a.m. today when a tractor-trailer slammed into his truck on Interstate 75 near Bradenton while he was fixing a light, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

April 18, 2008

DADE CITY -- A CSX train collided with a tractor-trailer this afternoon at a rail crossing off Old Lakeland Highway, southeast of town, but no one was seriously hurt. ...more

February 25, 2008

It was intended as a warning; the parting words of a safety-minded deputy. ...more

February 19, 2008

It was intended as a warning; the parting words of a safety-minded deputy. ...more

February 18, 2008

A car plowed into a group of street-racing fans obscured by a cloud of tire smoke on a highway Saturday, killing eight people and scattering bodies in the early morning darkness. ...more

February 17, 2008

The first of what perhaps will be thousands of pages of reports on the deadly Interstate 4 pileup in Polk County trickled into public view Monday with narratives that detailed what happened. ...more

February 5, 2008