SEBRING Traffic was halted on South Highlands Avenue shortly after 3 p.m., Monday, as fire crews battled a large fire in brush near Fred Wild Elementary School in Sebring. ...more

April 28, 2009

A record number of people turned up Saturday to dispose of their old paint, household chemicals and electronics at a parking lot staffed by the city's Solid Waste Department. ...more

April 26, 2009

A man and a woman are charged with felony drug trafficking after police said the two tried to sell 50 Oxycontin pills to an undercover officer in a Walgreens parking lot. ...more

April 25, 2009

Hillsborough County deputies said they have charged five men with trafficking in more than 150 kilograms of cocaine, one of the sheriff's department's largest drug cases. ...more

April 23, 2009

Two men drove from Manatee County to the Wal-Mart on Broad Street Wednesday on the belief they were going to illegally buy 150 grams of the painkiller oxycodone. ...more

April 18, 2009

BROOKSVILLE - Two separate traffic stops yielded crack cocaine on Wednesday. ...more

April 16, 2009

A motorcycle crash on Interstate 275 near downtown Tampa Sunday night killed the driver and critically injured a passenger, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

April 13, 2009

The Florida Highway Patrol has identified the man and woman killed Sunday afternoon in a crash on State Road 62 as James Jones, 40, of Avon Park and Janice Zonneveld, 59, of Palmetto. ...more

April 5, 2009

A 58-year-old Sebring resident was killed shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday when his Chevy pickup veered off the north-bound shoulder of U.S 98, and he was thrown out of the pickup, according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release. ...more

April 5, 2009

40-year-old woman was seriously injured after her sport utility vehicle overturned on the U.S. 92 ramp to Interstate 4, tossing her over a concrete railing onto the shoulder of the interstate. Gigi Laneda Bratcher of Tampa was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where she was listed in serious condition after the 12:43 a.m. wreck, the Florida Highway Patrol said this morning. ...more

April 3, 2009