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

Christine Lightfoot's reaction to a seemingly harmless teenage wisecrack will send her to prison for two decades. ...more

December 3, 2009

Christine Lightfoot's reaction to a seemingly harmless teenage wisecrack will send her to prison for two decades. ...more

December 2, 2009

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating a homicide that left a convicted sexual predator dead in Town 'N Country. ...more

December 1, 2009

A Pinellas County doctor who was Iraq's health minister is suing The Washington Post, accusing the paper of libel for a story describing allegations of corruption against him when he ran the Iraqi Red Crescent. ...more

December 1, 2009

Eva Ramierez heard a knock on her door Sunday night for which no one can ever prepare. ...more

December 1, 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

A small plane that left Wauchula crashed just before noon Sunday in eastern Hillsborough County, killing two men. ...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