TAMPA - A Tampa police detective and an FBI agent paid large sums of money to a known thief, liar and convicted felon, using him as their chief informant during an investigation of the Latin Kings street gang, a defense attorney is trying to prove in a hearing that began Thursday. ...more

November 8, 2007

A mobster-turned-informant was recruited by the FBI to help find bodies of slain civil rights workers in Mississippi and got information at gunpoint, the gangster's former girlfriend testified Monday at the murder trial of a former FBI agent. ...more

October 30, 2007

A budding online friendship between a Citrus Springs man and a St. Petersburg man turned sinister when one invited the other to help him kill someone and then have sex with the body, Citrus County sheriff's officials said. Sheriff's deputies on Friday arrested Kevin Wade Daley, 50, of Citrus Springs, charging him with criminal solicitation to commit first-degree murder. They also searched his home located at 2377 W. Swanson Dr. ...more

October 27, 2007

Shares in WellCare Health Plans were hammered on Wall Street on Thursday, falling more than 60 percent in response to a massive raid Wednesday at its headquarters by federal and state agents. ...more

October 26, 2007

Brandon Erwin and Andrew Culver traveled together in the glitzy drug world, and both eventually wanted out. ...more

October 18, 2007