A judge in Riviera Beach has ruled a city law banning sagging pants is unconstitutional in the case of a 17-year-old who spent a night in jail for having his underwear exposed ...more

September 16, 2008

A judge in Riviera Beach has ruled a city law banning sagging pants is unconstitutional in the case of a 17-year-old who spent a night in jail for having his underwear exposed. ...more

September 15, 2008

The Sebring Police Department has detained a "young male" in connection with a robbery this morning at Cindy's Hallmark, located at 710 Sebring Square, police said. ...more

September 15, 2008

The Polk County Sheriff's Office says a missing 11-year-old Lakeland boy has been found. ...more

September 12, 2008

I have been due to buy new gardening gloves for, oh, at least three months. When are gloves officially worn out? If you guessed, "When they're so filthy, your fingers curl up in horror so you can't put them on," you are wrong. That's pure wimp, gardeners, plain and simple. ...more

September 11, 2008

Leroy Anderson Jr. was on a bicycle in Palmetto today when a man pulled up in a Chevrolet Camaro and fired four to six shots, hitting Anderson in the left leg, Manatee County deputies say. ...more

September 4, 2008

A person was killed when a city sanitation truck collided with a bicycle this afternoon, police said. ...more

August 29, 2008

Deputies have arrested a man they say robbed a Largo convenience store this morning of cash and lottery tickets after striking the cashier on the back of the head with a handgun. ...more

August 20, 2008

SOUTH MANATEE COUNTY - Sheriff's deputies have blanketed an area of Pride Park off 63rd Avenue East looking for a teenager they say pulled a teenage girl into a park bathroom and raped her. ...more

July 30, 2008

Police today released surveillance video of two acts of thievery. ...more

July 30, 2008