Wildlife rehab at Camp Funshine. ...more

July 16, 2009

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

A man was charged with burglary Sunday night after he broke into a house and made coffee, deputies said. ...more

September 2, 2008

"All this was a big joke. It got into something way bigger than it was supposed to be." ...more

August 25, 2008

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum. ...more

July 27, 2008

In the wilds of Wauchula, Peace River Electric Cooperative utility workers often come across wildlife. A few weeks ago, utility worker Eddie Bailey was traveling near the town of Ona in Hardee County when he spotted a furry thing parked on top of a wooden utility pole. Bailey recognized the beast as a Florida bobcat. ...more

June 4, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - Personnel from a New Port Richey doctor's office smelled something terrible, and when they looked in a bag outside, they saw what they believed to be a dead baby, Pasco County Sheriff's Office spokesman Kevin Doll said. ...more

May 2, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A man was arrested Thursday after a chow-shepherd mix was found dead in his back yard along with an emaciated pit bull, authorities said. ...more

December 21, 2007

TAMPA - A Latin Kings gang member failed to provide proper shelter to several dogs and birds, causing them to live in their own waste, investigators say. Carlos Ruben Rodriguez, 24, of Tampa, was arrested Monday. ...more

October 9, 2007