The founder and former head of Clearwater-based Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services was found dead last week in a Valdosta, Ga., hotel room in an apparent suicide. ...more

October 27, 2009

Reality show contestant Ryan Jenkins' life ended in a way that could have been scripted for TV: as police investigated the wanted man's suicide at a secluded Canadian motel, word came Monday of a mysterious young woman checking him in. Accused of the gruesome death of his ex-wife, a model whose body was so badly mutilated it had to be identified by her breast implants' serial numbers, Jenkins evaded a massive international manhunt for days as he crossed from California into his native Canada. ...more

August 24, 2009

Authorities say a man killed himself at the central Florida gun range where a mother killed herself and her son three weeks ago. ...more

April 28, 2009

Man shoots another man he found at his ex-girlfriend's house in Bradenton before turning the gun on himself ...more

December 28, 2008

It is the policy of The Tampa Tribune to correct all errors of fact. To report an error, call (813) 259-7600 or e-mail news@tampatrib.com. ...more

November 26, 2008

Efrem Tyree was only 9 years old, the new kid at a Pasco County charter school. After dinner with his mother and younger sister Saturday, Efrem's mom offered maternal advice: Put some lotion on after your bath. Minutes later, Jacqueline Tyree found her son hanging in a closet. ...more

November 25, 2008

A man's body was found this morning in Tampa Bay about an hour after an abandoned vehicle was discovered on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. ...more

October 18, 2008

Manatee County detectives are investigating an inmate's apparent suicide Monday night at the Manatee County Jail. ...more

August 5, 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

Shawn Lonsdale, who became one of the most bedeviling local critics of the Church of Scientology, died of an apparent suicide at his Clearwater home this past weekend. He was 39. ...more

February 20, 2008