Sarasota police are investigating a shooting this morning that left a 20-year-old man wounded in the hand and face. The shooting happened at 1962 19th St. just before 8:30 a.m., according to the Sarasota Police Department. ...more

November 9, 2009

Doctors for the Deerfield Beach boy set on fire by a group of teenagers say he's showing significant progress. Michael Brewer is being treated at a burn center jointly run by the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. The center director said Thursday the 15-year-old's wounds have staved off infection — a common complication of severe burns. ...more

October 23, 2009

Two days after attacking a 74-year-old Lakeland woman, a pack of raccoons remained on the loose Monday. ...more

October 6, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI sought to reach out to the heavily secular people of the Czech Republic on Saturday, decrying the "wounds" left by atheistic communism and urging them to rediscover their Christian roots. ...more

September 27, 2009

First Lt. Joseph Helton has been identified as the airman who died Tuesday in Iraq. ...more

September 10, 2009

First Lt. Joseph Helton has been identified as the MacDill Air Force airman who died Tuesday in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. ...more

September 9, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Pentagon says a 27-year-old soldier from Orlando has died after his unit was attacked in Afghanistan. ...more

September 7, 2009

Polk County sheriff's deputies are looking for a horse killer. Sometime between 5 p.m. Monday and 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, someone with a rifle fired two shots at Jessie, an 11-year-old sorrel quarter horse, deputies said. ...more

September 3, 2009

A Tampa man was arrested Saturday in connection with a beating in June in which he allegedly used a brick to beat someone he knew unconscious, police records show. ...more

July 25, 2009

72 Number of troops who died in Iraq from accidents, illness or suicide between September 2008 and April ...more

May 4, 2009