The settlement comes over a decade after the first concerns were raised publicly about the sheriff’s department’s confidential informant program, which investigators found broke multiple laws.

A scandal involving prosecutors’ illegal use of jailhouse informants, which may have affected as many as 50 felony trials, ...

Forward progress was stopped on the Lilac fire around 10 a.m. It was one of three fires in North County early Tuesday.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says it has arrested a man accused of robbing several gas stations at gunpoint. The Bradenton Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of the man ...