TAMPA - Police arrested five people in three separate fights on Seventh Avenue early this morning, including one in which an officer had to use a stun gun to control one pugilist to halt the fisticuffs. ...more

May 18, 2008

A house at 16034 Frost Drive, where Pasco County code enforcement officials found a woman and four dozen dogs living among filth and feces in November, was demolished Thursday. ...more

May 9, 2008

A house at 16034 Frost Drive, where Pasco County code enforcement officials found a woman and four dozen dogs living among filth and feces in November, was demolished today. ...more

May 8, 2008

SEBRING — A Sebring woman remained in Highlands County Jail without bond Tuesday, after sheriff's deputies arrested her Friday following a domestic violence related dispute. Norma J. McClellan, 65, of Sebring, was charged with felony battery or domestic battery by strangulation. ...more

May 7, 2008

The federal government and a private laboratory have no duty under state law to protect the public from lethal materials, their lawyers told the Florida Supreme Court on Monday in a lawsuit over the anthrax death of a supermarket tabloid photo editor. ...more

May 6, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Despite his family's wishes, Pasco County jail officials have refused Bobby Lee Black III's request for transport to his grandmother's funeral in Kissimmee. ...more

May 3, 2008

TAMPA - Two Polk County men were arrested in Volusia County Monday, accused of shooting at a truck on Interstate 4, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

February 25, 2008

A recent article in The Hunstville Times told of the death of two women who lived together. They were mother and daughter. One was age 63. She was the caregiver for her 89-year-old mother who had Alzheimer's disease. The daughter apparently died from a heart attack in their home - unbeknown to neighbors or friends. Subsequently, her mother starved to death. Like us, you're probably asking, " How could that have happened? Didn't anyone ever check on them?" But think about it. How easily could that happen in your neighborhood? Might we sometimes be confused between what is interfering and what is caring? Either way, interfering or caring could have saved one or perhaps two lives. If the caregiver had had a buddy who called every morning and evening, things may have ended differently. Our mom and a friend had a daily phone system worked out between them. Their agreement and friendship greatly eased our concerns – especially when we were traveling and couldn't always check on her ourselves. ...more

January 25, 2008

LARGO - A man and two women were arrested Tuesday evening on charges they illegally passed themselves off as licensed massage therapists and then performed the massages in the nude or offered their clients sex. ...more

January 23, 2008

BARTOW - Leon Davis Jr., who is accused of killing two women and an unborn baby he set on fire, was indicted Tuesday in the Lake Wales arson, police said. ...more

January 8, 2008