The city that a year ago watched the unfolding tragedy of the abduction and slaying of 21-year-old North Port mother Denise Lee will pause Saturday at City Hall to remember her. ...more

January 16, 2009

An attorney for condemned killer Joseph Smith is asking the Florida Supreme Court to overturn his death sentence. Smith was sentenced to death for killing 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in 2004. His abduction of the middle school student was captured on security cameras and broadcast nationwide. ...more

January 7, 2009

A Polk County man has been charged with armed kidnapping and false imprisonment in the carjacking of his estranged girlfriend and one of her friends outside her child's school Tuesday morning, deputies say. ...more

January 6, 2009

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The abduction happened 27 years ago, at a time when parents routinely left their children playing in the toy store, unattended, and continued shopping. ...more

December 17, 2008

The abduction happened 27 years ago, at a time when parents routinely left their children playing in the toy store, unattended, and continued shopping. ...more

December 17, 2008

Nathan Lee, husband of slain North Port mother Denise Lee, is scheduled to appear on the Dr. Phil show today to discuss a mishandled 911 call that might have saved Lee's life, and already the show is generating controversy. ...more

December 12, 2008

TAMPA Jacey Laundree, the sister of one of the two Apollo Beach restaurant workers who said they were kidnapped and raped in August by three unknown attackers, spoke out Monday night about the impact the incident has had on her family. Rigoberto Moron Martinez, Vicente Reyes-Carbajal and 13-year-old Jose Walle were charged in the rapes as well as in a similar attack at a St. Petersburg restaurant in July. Martinez also faces another rape charge in Hillsborough County. ...more

November 18, 2008

- The man accused of kidnapping Denise Lee from her North Port home and killing her may be incompetent to stand trial, his attorney says. ...more

November 15, 2008

U.S. Special Forces soldiers freed a kidnapped American working for the Army Corps of Engineers during a nighttime mission last week - a rare hostage rescue in a country where ransom abductions have become increasingly common. ...more

October 22, 2008

A 6-year-old boy kidnapped from a Las Vegas home by alleged drug dealers posing as policemen has been found alive in a neighborhood northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said early Sunday. ...more

October 19, 2008