Two teenagers arrested in connection with last week's burglary in which a Pasco County deputy was shot but not injured now face more serious charges. ...more

August 14, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY - Even as he held a jail visitation phone with shackled hands, first-degree murder defendant Timothy Brooks said Thursday he still hopes he will play in the National Football League someday. ...more

August 7, 2008

After four years pursuing one former Army scientist on a costly false trail, FBI agents investigating the deadly anthrax letters of 2001 finally zeroed in last year on a different suspect: another Army scientist from the same biodefense research center at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md. ...more

August 2, 2008

Police negligence contributed to drug informant Rachel Hoffman's death, a Leon County grand jury said Friday. ...more

August 2, 2008

Police negligence contributed to drug informant Rachel Hoffman's death, a grand jury said today. ...more

August 1, 2008

BRADENTON - A former Lakewood Ranch High quarterback and his friend could face the death penalty if convicted of the first-degree murder charges prosecutors filed against them Monday. ...more

July 29, 2008

It was a drug deal gone "very, very bad" and someone ended up dead, Pasco County Sheriff's Office Detective Lisa Shoneman said Wednesday, summing up a fatal shooting Sunday. ...more

July 24, 2008

It was a drug deal gone "very, very bad" and someone ended up dead, Pasco County Sheriff's Office Detective Lisa Shoneman said today, summing up a fatal shooting Sunday. By today, the three men detectives think are responsible for the slaying of Pedro Perez were behind bars and facing felony murder charges. ...more

July 23, 2008

A former Alabama state trooper is scheduled to go on trial in October for a slaying that occurred on darkened streets during a historic civil rights demonstration in Marion in 1965. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - Police have charged three people in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man in November. LaBronx Bailey, 18, of Riverview, and two 16-year-olds, Tra Evan Lineberger of Riverview and Esteban Vincent Rivera of Valrico, were already in custody when Tampa police on Wednesday filed felony first-degree murder charges against each of them. ...more

June 19, 2008