A Tenoroc High School student died Tuesday evening after being struck by a car as he walked home from school Tuesday afternoon. ...more

December 8, 2009

A Tampa man called 911 seven times Sunday, once threatening to blow up his neighbor's house, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

December 7, 2009

A 20-year-old man is accused of punching his neighbor, causing a brain injury that required surgery. ...more

December 3, 2009

Alongside the daily grind of armed robberies, missing persons and domestic violence calls, add a case of tree poisoning to the plate of the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Deputies say that sometime between August and September someone came onto private property on Pheasant Drive in Mulberry, drilled holes in several trees and plugged the holes with something. ...more

December 3, 2009

A 46-year-old Land O' Lakes man has been accused of setting his own house on fire. Pasco County sheriff's deputies say David Wayne Cox, of 4151 Gerry Lane, used a cigarette lighter Saturday to intentionally spark fires on the first and second floors of his home. ...more

November 30, 2009

All day today, people came to pay their respects and say prayers at the memorial covered with dozens of candles and teddy bears in memory of 2-year-old Luis Martinez, who was found dead near his home Saturday. ...more

November 29, 2009

Tiger Woods canceled yet another meeting with state troopers but, for the first time, talked about his car crash on his Web site, saying it was his fault, that his wife acted courageously and that remaining details were private. ...more

November 29, 2009

Dozens of volunteers and deputies on foot, horseback and in the air were searching late Friday for a missing 2-year-old boy. ...more

November 28, 2009

A toddler has been missing since this afternoon in eastern Hillsborough County, and the sheriff's office is searching for him from the air and ground. ...more

November 27, 2009

I live in a deed-restricted town home community and have a neighbor who thinks the county's right of way is her personal property. She will not allow me to put out my trash bags for pickup and throws my garbage and yard waste onto my driveway when I do. The association, various police officers, and waste removal service representatives have all spoken to her about this, and yet she refuses to allow me to utilize this service area. It makes a mess and has to be rebundled. ...more

November 22, 2009