More than three years after 13-year-old Sarah Lunde was killed and dumped in a pond near her Ruskin home, prosecutors are about to reveal some of what the slaying suspect said about her death. ...more

August 10, 2008

Iraq and the United States are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. officials, however, insisted no dates had been agreed. ...more

August 8, 2008

ORLANDO - State prosecutors have filed formal charges against the 22-year-old mother of a missing central Florida girl, but not in the disappearance. ...more

August 5, 2008

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had his first skirmishes with the U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday: He was cut short by the judge when he tried to protest his arrest and was put on notice that the prosecution will object to his demand to represent himself. ...more

August 1, 2008

A program designed to provide counseling in lieu of prosecution for juvenile domestic violence offenders is expected to officially launch this month in Hillsborough County. ...more

July 21, 2008

TAMPA - A program designed to provide counseling in lieu of prosecution for juvenile domestic violence offenders is expected to launch this month in Hillsborough County. ...more

July 16, 2008

A 12-year-old accused of fatally beating his baby cousin after she interrupted a cartoon pleaded no contest Wednesday and was sentenced to a juvenile treatment center. ...more

July 10, 2008

TAMPA - A former bus driver for Hillsborough Area Regional Transit accused of making sexual advances toward a passenger and not letting her off the bus will not be charged. ...more

June 25, 2008

Regarding "The Next Attack: Coming Soon" (Other Views, June 19): Cal Thomas decries our Supreme Court's decision granting foreign terrorist detainees the right to access U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention, "a right that should be reserved only for American citizens." ...more

June 22, 2008

TAMPA – Two men who changed their minds about testifying against their co-defendants were sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for their role in a 2006 Spring Hill marijuana growing operation. ...more

June 20, 2008