Sarasota police have arrested a suspect in the 30-year-old murder case of community leader John Allaman. ...more

March 30, 2009

Phillup Partin, the drifter who killed 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook in 2002, will die for his crime. ...more

December 3, 2008

SEBRING — Tim Fanning gets up early every weekday morning, walks along a sandy path to where his bike is parked, then rides over to Labor Finders, 3735 Kenilworth Blvd. It's first-come, first-served at the temporary employment agency, so Fanning, 43, gets there by 4 a.m. Those who show up at 7 a.m. usually don't get jobs. Day laborers don't stand in line, there's no need. They mentally keep track of who came before them. "It's the honor system," said Johnny Malone, 40. ...more

February 8, 2008

A drifter accused of kidnapping and decapitating a 24-year-old hiker in Georgia is now a suspect in the slaying of a Florida woman whose body was found last month in a national forest, authorities said Wednesday. ...more

January 10, 2008

A drifter agreed to lead investigators to a hiker's decapitated body in the north Georgia woods after prosecutors pledged not to seek the death penalty against him, authorities said Tuesday. ...more

January 9, 2008

A fugitive sex offender wanted in two states was charged Saturday with strangling a woman and leaving her body under a bed at a Times Square hotel. ...more

September 2, 2007