The federal appeals court in Atlanta has declined to overturn lower court decisions against a new sentencing hearing for Patrick Charles Hannon, condemned to die for cutting a man's throat and fatally shooting another in Tampa 18 years ago. ...more

March 21, 2009

Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

Authorities upped the charge today against a man accused of beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter to death because she wouldn't stop crying. ...more

March 19, 2009

A jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday before finding Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. guilty of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Wesley Chapel High students. ...more

March 19, 2009

Jurors have begun deliberating whether Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. took a pair of teenagers to a dirt road two years ago and shot them both in the head. ...more

March 18, 2009

Lakeland police are asking for the public's help in finding a man charged with attempted first-degree murder in connection with a shooting on Monday. ...more

March 18, 2009

Prosecutors say they'll pursue first-degree murder charges in the death of a 17-month-old boy from injuries his uncle initially described as a fall against a table. ...more

March 17, 2009

The Florida Department of Children and Families never received a call from a neighbor reporting child abuse by a man now charged with killing a toddler in his care, an agency spokeswoman said this morning. ...more

March 16, 2009

The next to the last chapter in a tragic story was completed Friday, when Joshua Lee Altersberger pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the death of State Trooper Nicholas Sottile. The story won't be complete, however, until a jury decides if the death penalty awaits Altersberger. ...more

March 15, 2009

In the early morning hours of Friday the 13th, Joel Phillip Husebo, dressed himself entirely in black, slipped on a pair of rubber gloves and entered a mobile home, where he stabbed the resident seven times, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

March 14, 2009