You're now running double the risk of getting a ticket if you run a red light at the intersection of U.S. 19 and Ridge Road, and the odds are going to keep going up in the near future at that and other nearby busy intersections. ...more

November 20, 2009

Authorities have found a missing 9-year-old girl from Sumter County. ...more

November 10, 2009

Sarasota police are investigating a shooting this morning that left a 20-year-old man wounded in the hand and face. The shooting happened at 1962 19th St. just before 8:30 a.m., according to the Sarasota Police Department. ...more

November 9, 2009

Shortly after he burst into a woman's home and robbed her at gunpoint, taking a laptop computer, a man tried selling the piece of electronics equipment to someone in her neighborhood, St. Petersburg police say. But the would-be buyer grew suspicious and took a picture of the man, police say. Now investigators hope that by releasing the buyer's photograph they might get a tip as to who he is. ...more

October 28, 2009

The founder and former head of Clearwater-based Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services was found dead last week in a Valdosta, Ga., hotel room in an apparent suicide. ...more

October 27, 2009

With the city's crime rate plummeting the past six years - and the police department on pace for an 18 percent decrease this year - maintaining that trend could prove difficult. ...more

October 23, 2009

With the city's crime rate plummeting over the past six years – and the police department on pace for an 18 percent decrease this year – maintaining that trend could prove difficult. ...more

October 22, 2009

Police Chief Ken Albano calls it an unprecedented move. At the request of the Temple Terrace City Council and with the buy-in of the police department, the Fraternal Order of Police Florida Council has relinquished pay increases to sworn city police officers during the 2009-10 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. ...more

October 21, 2009

When Brenda Breeden first read the announcement about the all-day Citizens Police Academy she shrugged it off. ...more

October 21, 2009

Police say they arrested a Sebring man for felony battery Friday after a 7-year-old girl alerted a librarian at the Sebring City Library that her mother and boyfriend were fighting. ...more

October 21, 2009