Two men and woman who said they were agents with a drug task force handcuffed a woman, sexually assaulted her during a strip search and hauled her off to jail.

A woman who left her 8-year-old son on the side of a road after arguing with him about his performance in a bicycle race was convicted yesterday of contributing to his delinquency and given a 12-month suspended jail term.

A young woman was on her porch playing with a little stray puppy she’d all but adopted when a white Ford Ranger pulled up Friday.

Charlie Owens, owner of Charlie’s Service Center vehicle-repair shop, couldn’t help himself this spring when he went to gather up a stray cat’s kittens for a customer who agreed to adopt them—and saw one kitten, bearing an amazing 24 toes, sadly staring up at him.

A middle-school teacher who was accused of being drunk in her classroom in March has reached a proposed settlement with the Florida Department of Education.

A judge yesterday described conditions in a home overrun with dozens of cats as the most grotesque he has seen in 25 years of judicial service.

The smell of cats is so strong outside Jim Zimmer’s apartment, neighbors called authorities, who found 25 cats inside, one of them dead.

Police found a 6-month-old surprise waiting for them when they answered a call to a Dale City home. And the father of the little surprise was put in jail.

Richmond police say a man who engaged the services of a prostitute resorted to force to get his money back because he was dissatisfied.

A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to beating his uncle, who is wheelchair-bound, with a frying pan during a robbery.

A woman employs her small children in a ruse to steal drugs from medicine cabinets, claiming the little ones need to use the bathroom, police said Friday.

Police are searching for the beating victim in a 25-year-old video that recently surfaced and went viral.

When it comes to fashion, we live in a world of unwritten rules. Some of them are good. Some of them are ridiculous.

Subjected to a national barrage of negative publicity, Bank of America has apologized to Steve Valdez, a 54-year-old Tampa man born with no arms who was not allowed to cash his wife’s check last week because he could not offer a thumbprint.

Lurking among the blind, immobile and dying at the National HealthCare Bristol nursing home is a simple, yet powerful phrase etched in the minds of nursing aides: chain of command.