Bernard Madoff's new Manhattan home is the size of a walk-in closet, with cinderblock walls, linoleum floors and a bunk bed. ...more

March 12, 2009

When I was growing up, my parents considered Saturday evenings sacred in our house. It was the one night of the week when Mom fixed steak and baked potatoes. ...more

February 18, 2009

The dead man lies naked on a metal table, a small cloth covering his groin, mouth open, arms rigid and cocked. ...more

September 13, 2008

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a man found shot to death this month in a rented house in Seminole where he lived with a number of people who worked at the same restaurant. ...more

June 28, 2008

LARGO - The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a man found shot to death this month in a rented house in Seminole where he lived with a number of people who worked at the same restaurant. ...more

June 27, 2008

SEBRING — In the living room, there's a couch, but no chairs, no coffee table, not even a painting on the wall. Visitors sit at the kitchen table. In the bedrooms, there are two bunk bed mattresses, but no bed frame. And nothing else. Paul isn't a minimalist, he was homeless last week. Until two weeks ago, Paul, who didn't want to give his last name, was living in a domestic violence shelter with his children, and was one of 15 Highlands County residents given a place to live by the Agency for Community Treatment Services Inc. "We need a homeless shelter in Highlands County, bad," said Terri McClelland, the local ACTS housing case manager, who helps the homeless. ...more

February 7, 2008

A laid-back morning for three teenagers turned tragic Thursday when a 19-year-old Bradenton man accidentally shot his friend in the head while retrieving a loaded rifle, authorities said. ...more

October 12, 2007