The Betmar Acres homeowners association was portrayed as rude and overbearing Thursday during a court hearing over its attempt to remove a mobile home from its park. ...more

January 23, 2009

Brooksville police say 35-year-old Monty Gregg Albright robbed and strangled a man this week. Albright was arrested at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday. He was charged with first-degree homicide. Police say Albright went to 27 Cherry St. on Monday and bound the victim, 58-year-old Steven Van Slyke, who is a local property appraiser. Albright got Van Slyke's bank card and pin number, took the victim's vehicle to a bank machine and withdrew cash, police say. ...more

January 22, 2009

A vigilant witness who wrote down a license plate number cracked the case of a Circle K robbery on Saturday, deputies say. ...more

January 21, 2009

A motion of acquittal was granted in the trial of a Lake Placid man charged with operating a grow house. ...more

January 21, 2009

A sexual harassment suit has been filed against the county jail by a former corrections officer who claims she received a "constant barrage" of lewd comments from her superiors. ...more

January 16, 2009

Max Hardcore has asked a judge for permission to go to Vegas before he heads off to prison. Hardcore, whose real name is Paul Little, was convicted by a Tampa federal jury of 10 obscenity charges for adult videos he made, starred in and sold over the Internet and through the mail. ...more

January 8, 2009

Although investigators determined the carbon monoxide deaths of Jules and Parker Baudin were accidental, the boys' parents are assigning blame. ...more

January 8, 2009

A federal magistrate is recommending that a Tampa man charged with being part of a Gambino crime family conspiracy be tried along with other defendants accused in the conspiracy. James V. Cadicamo was arrested in August along with four other men charged with participating in a vast racketeering conspiracy under the umbrella of the Gambino crime family. At the same time, John A. "Junior" Gotti was named in a separate, similar indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Tampa. ...more

January 6, 2009

Isaias Blas Gonsalez, 42, of 103 Suwannee Court, Lake Placid, was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. ...more

December 31, 2008

A Tampa man remained in jail this morning after the Christmas night stabbing of another man during a melee at the defendant's apartment. ...more

December 26, 2008