A second defendant charged in the 2007 murder of Bryan "Red" Fanning now has an October trial date. ...more

May 22, 2009

Attorneys on both sides will return to Judge J. Michael Hunter's courtroom May 22 for the conclusion of the Spencer hearing for Joshua Lee Altersberger. ...more

May 9, 2009

Plans to begin the first-degree murder trial of Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. on Wednesday went by the wayside as jury selection dragged on for a third day. ...more

March 12, 2009

Plans to begin the first-degree murder trial of Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. today went by the wayside as jury selection dragged on for a third day. ...more

March 11, 2009

An execution-style slaying in a Bartow drug house is the subject of a rare, federal death penalty trial starting this week. ...more

February 23, 2009

SEBRING A Burbank, Calif., man accused of killing his wife waived his right to a speedy trial at a Thursday pretrial conference. ...more

February 19, 2009

A Burbank, Calif., man entered a written plea of not guilty via his attorney after being accused of killing his wife and leaving her body in a Lorida citrus grove. ...more

November 28, 2008

Voters in Pasco and Pinellas counties will elect a new circuit judge Nov. 4 and will be joined by Hillsborough voters in deciding whether to retain four appeals court judges and a justice of the Florida Supreme Court. ...more

October 17, 2008

The leader of a ring that smuggled hundreds of guns from Florida and sold them to street gangs in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty this morning to federal firearms crimes. ...more

September 10, 2008

BRADENTON - A Lakewood Ranch High School star athlete and his friend have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death and robbery of a 19-year-old man, opening up the possibility for the state to mount a death penalty case. ...more

July 30, 2008