Mallory Horne, 84, the only person to serve as Florida's Senate president and House speaker since Reconstruction who later become the target of a federal money-laundering probe, died Thursday after a battle with lung cancer. ...more

May 1, 2009

A UPS employee is accused of stealing 10,400 oxycodone pills that were supposed to be delivered to pharmacies, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

May 1, 2009

Police departments would be required to adopt policies to protect confidential informants under a bill headed to the governor. ...more

April 30, 2009

A UPS employee is accused of stealing 10,400 OxyCodone pills that were supposed to be delivered to pharmacies, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

April 30, 2009

Police have arrested a 42-year-old man who said the marijuana they found was for medicinal use. ...more

April 16, 2009

A two-month undercover operation has led investigators to about 1.1 pounds grams of cocaine and about 14 ounces of marijuana, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

April 6, 2009

A crumb of crack cocaine worth 20 cents landed a man in jail on Wednesday. ...more

April 2, 2009

Police say a 71-year-old Canadian woman has pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges after customs officials found 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) of marijuana hidden in her luggage at a Jamaican airport. ...more

April 1, 2009

The mother of Joshua Lee Altersberger described to jurors a family history of abuse and drugs, as the defense presented testimony in day two of the defendant's penalty trial. Altersberger pleaded guilty March 13 to shooting and killing Florida Highway Patrol trooper Nicholas Sottile during a Jan. 12, 2007 traffic stop in Highlands County. A jury was selected last week to hear testimony to help them make a sentencing recommendation. ...more

March 31, 2009

Two men have been arrested in connection to a March 9 drug bust in Palm Harbor where five warehouses were used as marijuana grow houses. ...more

March 26, 2009