Thinking he had been released from jail legitimately, Michael Hess went back to the restaurant where he had worked and asked about getting his job back. ...more

January 13, 2008

Thinking that he had been released legitimately, Michael Hess, the longtime South Tampa cook who lived on the lam under the assumed identity of a dead man for nearly three decades, went back to the restaurant where he worked and asked about getting his job back. But his release from jail was a mistake and short-lived and within eight hours, Hess, 57, was back in handcuffs. And within 10 hours, he was in a van headed for prison. ...more

January 12, 2008

The bondsmen got wind that John Edward Darlington was going to register his mother's truck Tuesday. ...more

January 9, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - The bondsmen got wind that John Edward Darlington was going to try to register his mother's truck on Tuesday. ...more

January 8, 2008

A standoff between Pinellas County deputies and a Seminole man Sunday morning led to exchanges of gunfire, but no one was seriously injured. ...more

December 30, 2007

SEMINOLE - A standoff between Pinellas County deputies and a Seminole man this morning led to exchanges of gunfire. No one was seriously injured, and the man now faces three counts of attempted first-degree murder on a law enforcement officer. ...more

December 30, 2007

TAMPA - One of two University of South Florida students accused of transporting explosives has asked the courts to throw out the evidence against him because the search was racially motivated and illegal. ...more

December 21, 2007

LAKELAND - An afternoon standoff in a quiet north Lakeland neighborhood ended peacefully with the arrest of a fugitive who escaped from a police car after an arrest several months ago, Lakeland police said. ...more

December 19, 2007

After a three-hour, emotional hearing filled with apologies, tears and requests for mercy, a former Wharton High School teacher and basketball coach was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years probation after pleading guilty to a sexual relationship with one of her students. ...more

December 6, 2007

When 22-year-old Solymarie Roman was found slain, her body burned, in a northeast Polk County orange grove, suspicion quickly focused on her boyfriend, Mourad Balzourt. ...more

November 30, 2007