Thousands of hybrid tea rose blossoms provide a spectacular roadside attraction. ...more

August 6, 2008

LARGO -- With the help of police dogs, Pinellas County sheriff's deputies arrested four teenagers in a string of car burglaries Monday night and early today in Largo. ...more

July 15, 2008

A man fought off a would-be robber who hit him on the head and tried to take his backpack, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. ...more

July 15, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Rescue workers pulled an 87-year-old Madeira Beach man from his submerged car this afternoon after he crashed into the water. ...more

July 12, 2008

I'm so excited! I'm getting my new lawn mower today. The old riding mower quit, and I had to decide what would be the best available mower technology to replace it. ...more

June 29, 2008

The Polk County Sheriff's Office does not suspect foul play was involved in the death of a man found Saturday in bushes behind a convenience store in Lakeland. ...more

June 22, 2008

Relatives looking for Dion Travis White were concerned about the timing of his disappearance: His stepbrother had been found tied up and shot to death Saturday morning at the Lakeland home the two men shared. ...more

June 16, 2008

Relatives were looking for Dion Travis White today, concerned about the timing of his disappearance: His stepbrother had been discovered tied up and shot to death Saturday morning at the Lakeland home the two men shared. They found White this morning. His body was hidden under some bushes near the home and Polk County sheriff's detectives are treating the death as a homicide. ...more

June 15, 2008

SEBRING — In Sebring Police Sgt. Mike Warner's own words, the police "beat the bushes for hours" Saturday looking for a suspect linked to a carjacking and robbery that morning. A man smacked a woman to the ground, snatched her car keys and drove off with a 2000 Chevy Cavalier shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday. About eight minutes later, a car matching that description was used as the getaway vehicle after a man, matching the description of the suspect in the previous carjacking, snatched a purse out of a 72-year-old woman's lap as she sat in a car. "That's the type of crime I won't stand for," Warner said in a phone interview Sunday. ...more

June 15, 2008

Ernie Setz, a Port Richey-area resident, is not happy with the way the county park in the Embassy Hills community is being developed. ...more

June 11, 2008