A dispute over $4 owed in a dice game led to a gunshot, police say. ...more

March 2, 2009

Police are looking for two people who broke into a Palmetto boarding home early this morning and shot dead a teenager who was in his bedroom. ...more

February 28, 2009

Tampa police charged Bryant Walker, of Tampa, with felony aggravated battery and misdemeanor resisting arrest without violence at about 1:15 a.m. after a fight at Club Prana. ...more

February 28, 2009

Two Lakeland men are accused of running a cockfighting operation that involved 124 roosters, officials said. ...more

February 28, 2009

A shelter for abused homeless women will establish a fund to reimburse women there who said they were swindled by an employee. ...more

February 27, 2009

For years, Rosemarie Sherwood acted as a house mother and adviser to abused homeless women, teaching them skills like saving and budgeting money so they could survive on their own. ...more

February 26, 2009

A walk with his 4-month-old pit bull, Jessica, turned tense for a man Tuesday after several men beat him and tried to snatch the dog, police said. ...more

February 25, 2009

A Bradenton woman was charged with felony burglary after she repeatedly broke into a home in her neighborhood to use the clothes washer and dryer in a vacant home, according to an arrest report. ...more

February 24, 2009

Authorities say a distraught St. Petersburg man threw a grenade at two officers in hopes of being shot by police. ...more

February 22, 2009

Police arrested the manager of a halfway house this morning after one of the residents said the manager threatened him with a gun. ...more

February 17, 2009