Police charged a homeless man with felony aggravated battery on Tuesday, saying he struck another man in the ear with a claw hammer. ...more

April 22, 2009

Police have arrested a man accused of trying to rob a pharmacy by saying he had in his pocket a needle filled with the virus that causes AIDS. ...more

April 19, 2009

Police say a Colorado woman wrapped her boyfriend's dog in packing tape and stuck the animal upside down to a refrigerator because he wouldn't get rid of it. ...more

April 17, 2009

A Tampa woman is accused of stealing from an 83-year-old man in order to pay her Verizon bill, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

April 15, 2009

A woman arrested on suspicion of shoplifting Wednesday told deputies she was just trying to get nice clothes for her children for Easter. ...more

April 9, 2009

A 23-year-old Tampa woman is charged with felony child neglect after deputies said she left her 6-year-old son home alone while she was at work. ...more

April 8, 2009

Investigators have identified the man who stabbed a police dog and was shot dead by a Citrus County sheriff's deputy as 26-year-old Dominic Giacobbe. ...more

March 24, 2009

Brittini Hardcastle, one of the five girls charged in the 2008 videotaped beating of a Polk County teen, was sentenced to 15 days in jail today. ...more

March 20, 2009

Asked to pay a $13.50 bar tab, an Ohio man responded by head-butting a sheriff's office sergeant, an affidavit states. ...more

March 19, 2009

Sheriff's deputies arrested a 50-year-old man, accusing him of using a 17-year-old girl to commit prostitution. ...more

March 19, 2009