Two freshly killed deer were found inside a vehicle stopped Monday morning by Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies at Lake Magdalene Boulevard and Florida Avenue, records show. ...more

December 30, 2008

A suspicious fire caused $120,000 damage to a Tampa home where the renters had just moved out, investigators say. Tampa Fire Rescue crews found smoke and flames pouring from the two-story home at 811 E. Curtis St. about 4:42 a.m. today. It took about 25 minutes to get the fire under control. Nobody was in the home, and no injuries were reported, officials said. ...more

December 29, 2008

A man who carried out a Christmas Eve massacre and arson dressed as Santa at the home of his former in-laws apparently intended to flee the United States, but his plans were dashed after the inferno he created severely burned his arms and melted his red costume onto his body, police said Friday. ...more

December 27, 2008

Gov. Sarah Palin's home church was badly damaged by arson, leading the governor to apologize if the fire was connected to "undeserved negative attention" from her failed campaign as the Republican vice presidential nominee. ...more

December 13, 2008

A continuance was requested Wednesday in the case of an Avon Park man charged with attempted second-degree murder. ...more

December 11, 2008

Hours before his arrest on rape charges Thursday, Thomas Kelly Bolduc told his mother over the phone that police were on the psychiatric ward of St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was being treated. "Somebody got raped," his mother, Carol Wood, recalled him saying. ...more

December 6, 2008

Arson was not suspected, although a pair of separate Saturday afternoon fires burned two homes on the same street, within hours of each other. ...more

December 1, 2008

Plant City has agreed to spend $475,000 to buy nearly one-half acre that was left vacant by arson in 2005 that destroyed almost a block in historical downtown. ...more

November 28, 2008

A man's dog alerted him to a fire and allowed him to escape the blaze that destroyed his home in Dunedin shortly after midnight, fire officials said. ...more

November 25, 2008

HOLMES BEACH - Within hours of a Sunday night fire that destroyed part of a motel owned by missing Holmes Beach resident Sabine Musil-Buehler, police questioned her boyfriend, William J. Cumber. ...more

November 18, 2008