The Sarasota County School Board shut down a police training class on Tuesday after a complaint that the instructor, Mike Treubert, had shown a pornographic movie to the six officers taking the course. Mike Treubert Treubert, 50, is a North Port city commissioner and retired Venice police officer. He also teaches driver's education and has been a longtime youth sports coach. He refused to comment Wednesday on the complaint or the personnel investigation by the School Board. ...more

February 5, 2009

Homeless man fatally struck by car. ...more

January 28, 2009

Batman has had a slew of enemies over the years - The Joker, The Riddler, Catwoman - but in Ybor City last year, he added a new nemesis: Tampa police. ...more

January 25, 2009

Deputy Jim Powers circled the house, banging on windows and doors. He was trying to determine if anyone was home after a neighbor called authorities to say the homeowner hadn't picked up his paper from the driveway recently. ...more

January 22, 2009

Gulfport police have arrested two St. Petersburg 16-year-old boys on charges they took part in a carjacking Saturday night. Two others involved have not been identified, said Lt. Robert Vincent of the Gulport Police Department. ...more

January 20, 2009

The U.S. Army Reserve soldier who died Sunday in St. Petersburg during a training exercise has been identified as Sgt. 1st Class James Bailey Jr. of Belzoni, Miss., military officials say. ...more

January 15, 2009

A 50-year-old soldier collapsed Sunday morning during physical fitness training with his unit in St. Petersburg and later died, according to a U.S. Army Reserve Medical Command news release. The soldier's name isn't being released, pending next of kin notification. ...more

January 12, 2009

Charles Stephen Dixon made racial remarks against a booking sergeant at Orient Road Jail and spat in the faces of two detention deputies, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

January 8, 2009

Outside, the motion-triggered floodlights in her fenced-in yard had been unscrewed. The Chevrolet Blazer was missing. All the doors were locked. ...more

January 7, 2009

Ralph Daniel Wright Jr., the former sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base who stands accused in the murders of his ex-girlfriend and their 15-month-old son, accidentally left a glove behind at the murder scene, according to court documents unsealed this morning. ...more

January 6, 2009