Over the objections of prosecutors, a judge agreed Friday that some of Jasmine Bedwell's past can be brought up in the trial of her former boyfriend, charged with killing her 3-month-old son and throwing the infant out of a moving car. ...more

October 24, 2009

Defendant is suffering from an array of illnesses, attorney says ...more

October 23, 2009

The attorney for accused murderer Donald Alfonso Henry informed Judge Peter Estrada Wednesday that the defense needed to file one more motion before the case was ready for the next step. ...more

October 22, 2009

A hearing is scheduled in the murder case against Casey Anthony, the Florida mother charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter. ...more

October 16, 2009

The Bay area grandmother accused of shooting and killing her granddaughter's estranged husband is on her way back to her home state of Illinois. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Web site, Shirley Skinner left the Pinellas County jail at 7:55 this morning. ...more

October 7, 2009

A U.S. Army flag that was flying in Afghanistan at the hour of Tampa police Cpl. Mike Roberts' death will be presented to his widow, Cindy, this afternoon. ...more

October 6, 2009

A grand jury is calling it murder. David McBurnett Jr., 19, was indicted for first-degree murder in the beating death of his girlfriend's 1-year-old son, Hunter Morris. The child, who suffered internal bleeding, a rib fracture and "numerous contusions," died in the hospital on Sept. 12. ...more

October 3, 2009

A man already in prison on a robbery charge has been indicted in the fatal shooting of a woman cab driver last year. ...more

October 2, 2009

CHICAGO (AP) — Cell phone footage showing a group of teens viciously kicking and striking a 16-year-old honors student with splintered railroad ties has ramped up pressure on Chicago officials to address chronic violence that has led to dozens of deaths of city teens each year. ...more

September 28, 2009

A Dade City man facing a first-degree murder charge in a 2007 shooting pleaded guilty this morning to second-degree murder. ...more

September 16, 2009