Hillsborough County will ask multiple law enforcement and regulatory agencies to investigate whether former Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson committed prosecutable crimes before he left office last month. ...more

February 5, 2009

In the days of old, if a woman told a dispatcher she had been raped in Clearwater, and the dispatcher realized the crime occurred outside the city's boundaries, the woman would be given a telephone number to call. ...more

February 2, 2009

The calls were always the same: telemarketers claiming he'd promised $20 to a Florida charity. Coral Springs resident Jerry Mayer didn't remember pledging money. He told the callers they were wrong. He had an illness in his family. He just wanted to be left alone. But the phone kept ringing at least once a week until he mailed a check, he said. ...more

February 1, 2009

The calls were always the same: telemarketers claiming he'd promised $20 to a Florida charity. ...more

January 31, 2009

Golf cart safety is not practiced in Fairmount Mobile Estates. Some people have taken it upon themselves to rewrite motorized vehicles lighting laws while operating their carts at night on the subdivision streets. ...more

January 29, 2009

A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists. ...more

January 17, 2009

A 52-year-old man faces child pornography charges after being arrested early this morning at his Largo apartment complex. ...more

January 16, 2009

The aunt of a slain Belleair woman says the family had mixed emotions when they heard the man wanted in connection to her killing had been caught. ...more

January 7, 2009

The crime only took a minute. The man walked into the Mid-Florida Federal Credit Union in Lakeland on Nov. 20 and handed the teller a note demanding money. The teller complied, and the robber walked out. He hasn't been caught. ...more

December 31, 2008

Welcome to bank robbery in the modern age. No guns a blazing. No elaborately choreographed heists. No dramatic car chases or shootouts. ...more

December 30, 2008