In the hours after he killed the mother of his child, Vincent George Brown Jr. recorded an eerie greeting on his cell phone, attended a party in East Tampa and drove the car from whose trunk the woman had called 911 for help, police said today. ...more

January 9, 2009

A Kenneth City man was found guilty Thursday in a June 2007 wreck that left a bicyclist dead. After a three-day trial, a jury convicted Shannon Whitfield, 43, of leaving the scene of an accident involving death and of drunken driving-manslaughter, according to Pinellas County computerized court records. ...more

January 9, 2009

A three year prison stay was given to a teenager Thursday for her role in an armed burglary that injured a 93-year-old man. ...more

January 9, 2009

Ernest and Rose Flanagan always left home at 5 a.m. when they traveled, and they apparently held to that routine Christmas morning as they started on a two-day journey to visit a relative in Ohio. ...more

December 27, 2008

Ernest and Rose Flanagan always left home at 5 a.m. when they traveled, and they apparently held to that routine Christmas morning as they started on a two-day journey to visit a relative in Ohio. At 10 minutes after 5 – when the Flanagans were roughly 10 miles from their New Port Richey home -- a car going the wrong way on State Road 54 in Pasco County crashed head-on into the Flanagans' 2006 Cadillac, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. Ernest Flanagan, 77, was killed. Rose Flanagan, 86, suffered broken wrists and ankles, along with other injuries. She was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in serious condition Thursday. Her condition Friday wasn't available. "It's sad this happened on Christmas Day," said Ernest Flanagan's son Donald, who lives in Willoughby, Ohio. The driver of the other car, Donald P. Holes, 52, of Jacksonville, died at the scene. ...more

December 26, 2008

A Lake Placid woman charged with the murder of her newly delivered infant child will next appear in court in February. ...more

December 26, 2008

A former Spring Hill doctor on the sheriff's most wanted list is being sued by a former patient on a claim that he molested her in his office. ...more

December 23, 2008

James Morris was driving impaired the morning he fatally struck a man taking out garbage, authorities allege. ...more

December 13, 2008

Two roommates' friendship apparently turned sour Tuesday morning, when Rick Lamar Ming was found dead inside the unit he shared at Eden Apartments with Billy Locke Jr., the Tampa Police Department said. ...more

December 9, 2008

TAMPA A man accused today of strangling his roommate during an argument over cigarettes was arrested last month after another argument between them turned violent, police said. Tampa police charged Billy Locke Jr., 30, with felony second-degree murder in the death of Rick Lamar Ming, 43, earlier today. Locke was held without bail at the Orient Road Jail. ...more

December 9, 2008