A reported abduction in North Port on Monday night touched off a multi-agency search that briefly shut down Interstate 75 as authorities scrambled to find a 44-year-old woman, who was eventually located in a local restaurant with her alleged abductor, a 17-year-old boy. ...more

March 17, 2009

A 20-year-old woman is in jail facing charges that she punched a pregnant woman and used a box cutter to slash the victim's face and arms late Saturday night, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

March 15, 2009

A judge has ruled that the Pasco County Sheriff's Office should pay $9.14 million to a woman who sustained permanent brain damage from a crash with a deputy. ...more

March 15, 2009

A 31-year-old woman is accused of using a notary's stamp and forged signature to try and authenticate her own wedding certificate. Lisa A. Warner, of 6018 Antrim St., New Port Richey, was arrested Thursday and charged with forgery, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report said. ...more

March 13, 2009

A 75-year-old Englishwoman who wandered away from a relative's home in Ruskin might have walked about three miles into a shopping area, the Hillsborough sheriff's office said this morning. ...more

March 12, 2009

A 19-year-old man was killed and 19-year-old woman injured when a driver having a seizure lost control of his car on Park Boulevard and hit the pair on a sidewalk Tuesday in Seminole. ...more

March 11, 2009

A Pinellas Sheriff's narcotics detective accidentally shot a 43-year-old woman this morning in St. Petersburg as he and other detectives were bursting through a door to a home, Pinellas Sheriff's authorities say. ...more

March 11, 2009

A 64-year-old woman was cited with careless driving this morning after tapping a stroller with a 1-year-old boy inside, police said. ...more

March 11, 2009

Christy Lynn Martin may have made bail this weekend after she was arrested on charges she sent pornographic pictures of herself to a 14-year-old boy's cell phone. But now the Azalea Middle School teacher has no place to live. ...more

March 9, 2009

A Largo man now faces a third charge of pretending to be a police officer and luring a woman into his car to perform sex acts. ...more

March 9, 2009