The family of Kevin Bryant Jr. sat in tense, restrained silence, just feet from Eli Alvarez. Alvarez's decision to drink and drive ended 8-year-old Kevin's life on May 10, 2007. The boy's family came to court Thursday to watch Alvarez plead no contest to DUI-manslaughter in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence. ...more

February 19, 2009

Just after midnight on Saturday, a tow truck driver spotted a car being driven erratically by an attorney for the Pinellas Sheriff's Office. But after sheriff's deputies showed up, they did not give her a field sobriety test, even though they believed she had been drinking, sheriff's administrators say. ...more

February 18, 2009

A local murder suspect who drew national attention in 2005 for perching himself atop a crane in Atlanta for 56 hours was found guilty today and sentenced to life in prison. ...more

February 13, 2009

A 9-year-old charged with killing his father and another man has been offered a plea deal that would spare him any jail time, his attorney said Thursday. ...more

February 12, 2009

The murder suspect who drew national attention in 2005 for perching himself atop a crane in Atlanta for 56 hours was found guilty today and sentenced to life in prison. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Lake Placid woman charged with murdering her newly delivered infant child entered into a plea agreement Monday. ...more

February 10, 2009

A March hearing was set today for Vidal Mills, facing misdemeanor battery charges for beating a teen who allegedly boasted of killing his son – Jefferson High School football star Cedric "C.J." Mills. ...more

February 5, 2009

After about an hour of deliberating, a Pinellas jury Wednesday evening found a 27-year-old Miami man guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a friend in 2005. ...more

February 5, 2009

Nicholas Altamuro's family left a courtroom Friday afternoon uttering profanities and calling Donnalee Johnston "a liar." One woman went so far as to say she was going to kill Johnston. ...more

January 31, 2009

Nicholas Altamuro's family left a courtroom this afternoon uttering profanities and calling Donnalee Johnston "a liar." One lady went so far as to say she was going to kill Johnston. ...more

January 30, 2009