Deputies in Manatee County have found a 65-year-old worker at the Ellenton Outlet Mall who did not show up when her husband arrived to pick her up from work Saturday evening. Marilon Garrett was found at around 9 a.m. on Mendoza Road in good health. ...more

August 23, 2009

Tampa police are searching for a man they suspect of trying to rob a 7-Eleven early this morning. ...more

February 16, 2009

TAMPA Investigators here are searching for a Virginia couple they say murdered a man earlier this week and may be hiding here. Deputies say Jason Betts and Mithrellas "Relli" Curtis fled from Smyth County, Va., after Betts broke into the man's house on Monday, stabbed him to death and seriously injured three others – two women and a man. ...more

December 12, 2008

The Polk County Sheriff's Office this afternoon reported that a missing 58-year-old woman whose family says often becomes confused has been found. ...more

November 16, 2008

BRADENTON - An unidentified man asked to use a woman's phone Saturday night as she was waiting outside for a ride, but the woman grew suspicious. Apparently her instincts were dead-on. ...more

October 19, 2008

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting that occurred this evening in the driveway of 507 Murcott Place in Valrico. ...more

October 4, 2008

A Plant City man is free tonight after his arrest Monday on felony animal cruelty charges. He is accused of snaring a cat in a raccoon trap, spraying it with a hose and then submerging the feline, trap and all, in a barrel filled with water. ...more

September 2, 2008

You turn around one day and they're gone. In a city like Tampa where permanence is sometimes measured in seasons instead of years, change is a part of our lives. The landmarks that we gauge the timelines of our lives by - old schools, favorite restaurants, family stores - don't seem to have the value they used to. ...more

June 13, 2008