State Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, and Rep. Kenneth Roberson, R-Port Charlotte, announced plans Monday to introduce a bill to improve the training of 911 operators. ...more

November 17, 2009

A wealthy health care executive came home one night in September to find a terrifying note from his wife, Quinn Gray: The 37-year-old housewife and mother of two had been abducted from her posh Florida beach community. ...more

November 7, 2009

Somer Thompson last was seen alive walking along the sidewalk in front of a vacant house, and authorities said Friday they're searching for anyone who saw what happened to the 7-year-old. ...more

October 24, 2009

Chubby-cheeked Somer Thompson was last seen alive walking along the sidewalk in front of a vacant house, and authorities said Friday that they're searching for someone who saw what happened to the 7-year-old after that. ...more

October 23, 2009

Who among us, when we heard the news Wednesday that investigators had uncovered the body of a child in a south Georgia landfill, didn't for an absurd instant think, "Not Somer. Please, not Somer." ...more

October 23, 2009

I got stuck at work. My car broke down. I'm hiking the Appalachian Trail. ...more

August 28, 2009

A pajama-wearing 8-year-old boy found running along a country road in Crystal River last week wasn't abducted after all but left home on his own, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office said today. ...more

March 25, 2009

The man charged with killing 6-year-old Coralrose Fullwood visited the bar where her father, Dale Fullwood, worked and was once seen huddled with Fullwood looking at child pornography on a laptop computer, newly released law enforcement documents show. ...more

March 2, 2009

A Guantanamo prisoner who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco returned to Britain a free man today after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity - the first inmate from the U.S. prison camp freed since President Barack Obama took office. ...more

February 23, 2009

A former Blake High School custodian faces up to life imprisonment after a jury convicted him today of murdering his ex-girlfriend in October 2007. ...more

February 19, 2009