A Colombian drug lord was sentenced to life in prison today, the culmination of an investigation by a multiagency task force created to stop the flow of cocaine from South America to the United States, federal prosecutors say. ...more

January 12, 2009

A body discovered Friday morning in a vacant lot is that of a 15-year-old girl reported as a runaway a month ago, St. Petersburg police said. She had been shot. ...more

January 10, 2009

A 78-year-old mental health therapist who faces up to life in prison is asking for a new trial on a federal charge that he drove to the Tampa area to sexually and physically abuse two boys he thought would be made available by their father. ...more

January 9, 2009

A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. ...more

January 9, 2009

A high-profile Pinellas Park murder investigation is the subject of a television show airing on the Oxygen cable channel Thursday night. ...more

January 6, 2009

Early in 2008, shortly after the Florida Gators' annual spring game, junior linebacker Brandon Spikes and Coach Urban Meyer sat down together inside Florida Field, just the two of them and 90,000 empty seats. ...more

January 5, 2009

Nicholas Altamuro and Sharon Sprout share at least one characteristic - they're violent criminals. ...more

December 24, 2008

Pasco Circuit Judge Thane Covert sentenced Sharon Sprout to life in prison this morning for the 2004 slaying of her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Candiano. ...more

December 23, 2008

A former "Sopranos" actor has been acquitted of a second-degree murder charge in the 2005 shooting death of an off-duty policeman. ...more

December 22, 2008

Christopher Cutugno drew the break of his life Friday, as Circuit Judge Jack Day sentenced him just two years of house arrest followed by four years probation for his role in the March beatings of two fellow teenagers. ...more

December 19, 2008