50,000 Number of violent deaths annually in the United States $52 billion Annual cost in medical care and lost productivity due to violent deaths ...more

May 10, 2009

Suspected of helping Steven Lorenzo drug, torture and kill two men in his Seminole Heights home, Scott Schweickert had information detectives badly wanted. ...more

October 12, 2008

Had Michael Edmund Smith, 30, gone to trial on a charge of first-degree murder, he might have been sentenced to life for the stabbing death of 32-year-old James Peak. ...more

February 1, 2008

TAMPA - An Apollo Beach man was sentenced to 40 years in prison today for the stabbing death of 32-year-old James Peak, the brother of his deceased girlfriend. ...more

January 31, 2008

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office with a multi-agency contingent of help resumed its search at the county landfill Thursday morning for a discarded baby. ...more

November 29, 2007

Violent deaths of U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians appear to have fallen sharply in Iraq in October, according to the latest Associated Press tally. ...more

November 1, 2007