A Georgia woman claims Sebring resident Rikelle Purcell, who died last week after what authorities describe as a murder-suicide, was set to leave her abusive boyfriend before she was shot to death. ...more

November 3, 2009

Coming home was no cure for the Rays. Playing at Tropicana Field for the first time in two weeks, Tampa Bay fell 11-4 to the first-place New York Yankees on Monday night. The defeat dropped the defending American League champions to 71/2 games behind the Yankees in the AL East race. That matches the largest deficit the Rays have faced this season. ...more

July 28, 2009

Polk County sheriff's detectives are asking the public for help in finding a 10-year-old boy from Lakeland who did not come home Monday night. ...more

April 28, 2009

To Bob Bleakley, the father of one of three friends who did not survive a gulf fishing trip last week, details of a report released Monday about what happened on the boat are inconsequential ...more

March 16, 2009

On his first morning home from Iraq, Lt. Rusty Morris woke at dawn next to his wife, their son tucked between them. Loyal, who was just a baby when Morris deployed 15 months earlier, touched his father's face and ears as he drifted in and out of sleep. ...more

March 15, 2009

"I cried, when I got off the phone; I don't think I've ever sobbed like I did at that moment." It has been less than a week since 36-year-old Heather Ashby received the tragic news that her partner of 11 years was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. ...more

March 4, 2009

For Lynda Valdez, the emotions were too much Thursday when she toured the Army tugboat from which her soldier husband disappeared off the North Carolina coast. ...more

March 4, 2009

For Lynda Valdez, the emotions were too much Thursday when she toured the Army tugboat from which her soldier husband disappeared off the North Carolina coast. Lynda Valdez said she broke down when she and other family members visited the Major General Winfield Scott as they struggled to understand the Sunday accident that left 22-year-old Spc. Samuel Valdez of Plant City missing and presumed dead. ...more

February 27, 2009

Brian "David" Shaw thought he was going to have a few drinks with an old girlfriend after a Super Bowl party early Monday and ended up with a knife in the gut. ...more

February 4, 2009

Cally Richardson could pretty much guarantee if she played a prank on co-worker Thomas McNally Jr., he'd retaliate. ...more

December 24, 2008