The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office never sent out a regional "be on the lookout" alert warning other law enforcement agencies to search for a green Camaro on the night of Denise Lee's abduction and slaying. ...more

January 25, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - About an hour before authorities say Michael King abducted Denise Lee from her North Port home, he was at a Sarasota County gun range with another man, practicing his shooting with a 9mm pistol, the same type of weapon that killed Lee. ...more

January 24, 2008

NORTH PORT - A witness called 911 and said she saw a woman banging on the window of a Camaro and screaming for help as a car made its way down U.S. 41 on Thursday night, but the information apparently never got to officers searching for Denise Amber Lee. ...more

January 23, 2008

A motorist called 911 Thursday after hearing a woman screaming from the backseat of a car on U.S. 41, but the information apparently never got to officers searching for Denise Lee that night. ...more

January 23, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. Vackara Massaline, 31, of Sebring, was charged as an accessory after the fact on a charge of first-degree murder. A warrant was issued earlier in the month for the arrest of Donald Alfonso Henry, 36, of last known address: 606 Denise Ave., Sebring, in connection with the fatal shooting of Hugh Andrew Marks, 31, of Sebring. Henry remained at large Wednesday. ...more

January 17, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. ...more

January 16, 2008

AVON PARK — Sheriff's investigators announced the arrest of the girlfriend of a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a Sebring man near the intersection of Garrett Road and Alabama Road in Lacey Hills on Jan. 7. Vackara Massaline, 31, of Sebring, was charged as an accessory after the fact on a charge of first-degree murder. ...more

January 16, 2008

North Oaks condominium owners will lose their Bruce B. Downs Boulevard addresses March 28. ...more

January 16, 2008

The Polk County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the four people who died along Interstate 4 on Wednesday in a fiery 70-vehicle pileup. ...more

January 14, 2008

Polk County sheriff's Deputy Jack "Carlton" Turner's voice over the department radio betrayed the horrifying scope of disaster unfolding around him on Interstate 4. ...more

January 13, 2008