A former Walker Middle School student charged with petty theft while out on bail in a rape case will be freed from jail. ...more

October 28, 2009

Authorities arrested a Sarasota man Friday in connection to a woman's rape and murder in DeSoto County in 1984 after DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene, police said. ...more

April 11, 2009

Testimony began today in the trial of a former youth baseball volunteer accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in May. ...more

March 25, 2009

A Salvadoran immigrant convicted of attacking two women in the park where Chandra Levy's remains were found was expected to be arrested in the next few days in the former intern's slaying, a person close to the investigation said. ...more

February 22, 2009

A man wanted in connection with a Jan. 5 attempted robbery at American Momentum Bank was arrested Thursday night by Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives. ...more

February 19, 2009

To the untrained eye, a traffic crash is a jumble of twisted metal and scattered debris. ...more

February 7, 2009

Alan Crotzer: Pardons Are Ticket To New Life Then: Lawmakers and Gov. Charlie Crist gave the former inmate $1.25 million last spring to compensate him for the 241/2 years he spent in prison for crimes he did not commit. ...more

December 28, 2008

Fingerprints found after a violent convenience store robbery in Gulfport may help police. ...more

December 24, 2008

A year after being indicted in the rape and murder of a 71-year-old, Michael Lord Owens finally appeared in a Hillsborough County courtroom today. Owens, 45, made an initial appearance before Circuit Judge Walter Heinrich. The judge set Owens's arraignment for Jan. 6. ...more

December 22, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- Authorities say they have charged a man now being held in Georgia in the 1987 slaying of a woman who was found partially nude. Tony Fantauzzi, 48, is incarcerated in Newton County, Ga., said St. Petersburg police spokesman George Kajtsa. ...more

December 18, 2008