BARTOW - Leon Davis Jr., who is accused of killing two women and an unborn baby he set on fire, was indicted Tuesday in the Lake Wales arson, police said. ...more

January 8, 2008

AVON PARK — A smoke detector alerted an Avon Park family to a detached garage fire Wednesday night at 300 N. Lake Ave., in Avon Park. The fire was ruled accidental and electrical in origin, according to State Fire Marshal Investigator Brandon Ball. ...more

January 4, 2008

AVON PARK — The sales office for Water's Edge at Lake Anoka was heavily damaged early Sunday, and the State Fire Marshall declared it the second arson in three days for the Avon Park area. The fire at 1200 S. Florida Avenue comes two days after a Friday morning blaze that struck the New Life Ministries at 25 S. Verona Ave. ...more

December 30, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Two men barely escaped with their lives Thursday night when someone tossed an incendiary device into the back seat of the car they were in, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

December 28, 2007

The holiday spirit is alive and well in Dunedin. Fifteen artists burned out of a downtown gallery have experienced that spirit this week, both from the city and area patrons of the arts. ...more

December 22, 2007

Someone out there has information about who started the fire at Imago Art Gallery. "It was not a normal fire," Bill McElligott, Dunedin Fire Department division chief, said. "This one definitely had a lot help," he said. "It was definitely arson." ...more

December 21, 2007

LAKE WALES - He was just a neighbor trying to help. On Thursday afternoon, Brandon Greisman looked through his window and saw smoke. Minutes after he walked outside to investigate, he was shot across the bridge of his nose. His 5-year-old and 10-year-old daughters witnessed the shooting. They thought he had been killed. ...more

December 17, 2007

After they escaped, one of the severely burned women ran into a nearby sandwich shop and the other walked to an SUV in the parking lot and leaned against it. ...more

December 15, 2007

Dunedin studio fire shocks its members ...more

December 11, 2007

Sultana Volaitis pulled up to the charred building, rolled down the driver-side window and rubbed her eyes. ...more

December 10, 2007