In the hours after he killed the mother of his child, Vincent George Brown Jr. recorded an eerie greeting on his cell phone, attended a party in East Tampa and drove the car from whose trunk the woman had called 911 for help, police said today. ...more

January 9, 2009

Ronald Anthony Favorite, who investigators say used fake Tampa Electric Co. identification to get Hillsborough County residents to pay him their bills, has been arrested. ...more

January 8, 2009

Nazario Cortez, who caused the death of a grandmother and an unborn baby in a car crash seven years ago, has been arrested again. This time, he's charged with armed trafficking in cocaine. ...more

January 7, 2009

Ronald Anthony Favorite used fake Tampa Electric Co. identification to get Hillsborough County residents to pay him their bills, investigators say. Favorite performed a fake audit of accounts of some people in the University Area from Dec. 17 through 31, according to Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay, which is offering a reward of $1,000 for information leading to his arrest. ...more

January 6, 2009

Tampa police say they seized nearly 100 counterfeit $20 bills Sunday from a Davie man. ...more

January 5, 2009

Polk County deputies arrested a fifth person Saturday in connection with a shooting that left a 12-year-old bystander wounded in the leg. ...more

January 4, 2009

An investigation into the shooting of a 12-year-old Winter Haven boy has yielded four arrests. The boy was shot in the leg Monday afternoon as he and a friend unintentionally walked near two groups of people that were arguing, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said. Caleb Brown was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center and is home recuperating, deputies said today. ...more

December 31, 2008

Country singer Mindy McCready was hospitalized after she cut her wrists and took several pills in an apparent suicide attempt, Nashville police said. ...more

December 18, 2008

Police said they twice Tasered a man who refused to drop a gun and then ran away before attacking an officer. ...more

December 15, 2008

Micah Israel Rodriguez now knows what not to do when being arrested on a warrant for violating probation. ...more

November 28, 2008