A body found Saturday in Hardee County may have ties here in Highlands County, with local law enforcement assisting in the investigation. Lt. Tim Lethbridge, with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office's criminal investigation unit, said the Hardee County Sheriff's Office responded to a burned vehicle on Saturday. Inside, authorities discovered an unidentified body. ...more

December 1, 2008

She was supposed to have hosted a Thanksgiving celebration for out-of-state relatives. ...more

November 28, 2008

A 54-year-old man and his 38-year-old girlfriend were arrested today in Hillsborough County on charges they killed his 4-year-old granddaughter, according to Largo police. ...more

November 25, 2008

A $5.3 million grant awarded to the University of Florida College of Dentistry will target cancer prevention for low-income men across the state, including those in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 8, 2008

Manatee County sheriff's detectives are trying to identify a man whose body was found this afternoon at a palm tree farm in Palmetto. ...more

October 27, 2008

When the world falls apart some things stay in place/Levi Stubbs' tears run down her face. ...more

October 24, 2008

Pasco sheriff's detectives have ruled the death of a man whose body was found Sunday evening near a bar was a homicide. Bernaldo C. Vasquez, 23, of 13324 Center St., was found dead outside a home at 38827 Island Ave. just before 5:30 p.m., not far from Cooper's Bar, sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said. ...more

October 20, 2008

Pasco County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the suspicious death of an unknown male, the sheriff's office said Sunday. The death involves an unidentified Hispanic male in his early 20s found near Cooper's Barr, 13500 Center St., in Dade City, according to a report. ...more

October 19, 2008

James Patrick Fry, whose body was found in August in his burned sport utility vehicle, died as a result of a homicide, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said today. ...more

October 15, 2008

DNA analysis has helped identify the skeletal remains of a homicide victim found in 1989 as that of a woman who disappeared nine years earlier, St. Petersburg police announced this morning. Melinda Harder was 20 years old and was living at 2136 23rd Ave. N. when she was reported missing on July 27, 1980, police said. ...more

October 15, 2008