NEW YORK - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been linked to two murder plots in an obscure racketeering case involving a drug gang in his old neighborhood. ...more

June 30, 2008

PORT RICHEY A woman is in jail and her accomplice is wanted following a strong-arm robbery in which the woman pummeled a man with her fists to collect a drug debt, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office reported. ...more

May 31, 2008

SEBRING — As a former officer at the Avon Park Correctional Institution, Hector Velazquez Jr. dealt with violent, drug-addicted inmates on a daily basis. Now, because of an alleged eight-day cocaine fueled crime spree in 2005, Velazquez, of Sebring, will be behind bars. ...more

February 19, 2008

LAKELAND - It has been a year since Polk County Deputy Doug Speirs stopped a man in a rental car for speeding on 10th Street in north Lakeland, a routine moment of law enforcement work that set off one of the darkest days in Polk County history. Today, a crowd of deputies and police officers mixed with the public to mark the somber anniversary. ...more

September 28, 2007