BRADENTON - Authorities say a 20-year-old man hit his girlfriend when she wouldn't have sex with him Monday morning and then went to a house armed with a machete and stole speaker equipment. ...more

August 27, 2008

A Sebring man remained in Highlands County Jail without bond Monday after Avon Park police said he carjacked a pickup on Aug. 3, belonging to a Miami man. ...more

August 20, 2008

TAMPA - Police trying to get a man creating a disturbance in a Ybor City parking lot to leave wound up arresting him when he tried to pull a 30-inch machete he had hidden in the front of his pants, police said. ...more

June 1, 2008

CHARLOTTE COUNTY - Sheriff's deputies arrested a 25-year-old man last week on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl and using knives and a machete to threaten her mother. ...more

May 5, 2008

SEBRING — Details into the Avon Park attempted murder investigation for suspect Paul Dion Hamilton were released Monday by authorities. According to a probable cause narrative provided by the Avon Park Police Department, Hamilton reportedly attacked a female victim and mother of his child, age 27, on Feb. 10, with a machete after a verbal argument. ...more

February 19, 2008

TAMPA - An attempted murder suspect's cell phone calls allowed Avon Park police to track him to Tampa on Wednesday, Avon Park's interim police chief said today. ...more

February 14, 2008

Men sobbed as police unloaded 16 charred bodies at a mortuary in this western Kenyan city. People with machete and arrow wounds overwhelmed the main hospital and were forced to share beds. Hundreds of homeless took shelter at a church. ...more

January 27, 2008

It was a little past 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday when Clinton Portis picked up a phone in a Florida hotel room and began calling other Washington Redskins players one by one, steeling himself for the worst sort of conversation. ...more

November 28, 2007

MIAMI - Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor has died, says family friend Richard Sharpstein. ...more

November 27, 2007

TAMPA - Police are looking for a man who was armed with a machete when he robbed a CVS at 2725 N. MacDill Ave. Saturday morning. ...more

October 17, 2007