Police Det. Dan Burke retrieved three stolen purses from the Polk County Sheriff's Office, recovered recently in a bag on the roadside by a county cleanup crew near the Florida's Natural juice plant in Lake Wales. ...more

July 26, 2008

No, really it's true! Anyone thinking they saw a 2,000- pound Black Angus bull in their yard Friday morning probably weren't imagining it. ...more

July 26, 2008

A grease truck collided with a sport utility vehicle at a city intersection off Interstate 275 this morning, with both vehicles flipping and at least one of them striking and killing a nearby bicyclist. ...more

July 18, 2008

A Central Florida police sergeant is free on bail after being charged with stripping, fondling and spanking a woman against her will. ...more

July 12, 2008

An Avon Park man was free Wednesday on $2,500 bail after he was zapped by police with a Taser-type weapon after two women complained that he threatened them and police say he refused to comply with their orders. ...more

July 10, 2008

LAKELAND A teen has been accused by detectives of molesting a 5-year-old boy at a church's day care center, Lakeland police said. ...more

July 9, 2008

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing — a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" fame. ...more

July 8, 2008

A woman talking on a cell phone Monday rammed her sport utility vehicle into the rear of a Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus stopped to pick up and let off passengers, a PSTA spokesman said. ...more

July 8, 2008

LARGO - A woman talking on a cell phone rammed her sport utility vehicle into the rear of a Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus this afternoon that had stopped to pick up and let off passengers, a PSTA spokesman said. ...more

July 7, 2008

GEORGIA - A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area Saturday at Six Flags Over Georgia, authorities said. ...more

June 29, 2008