Hours before his arrest on rape charges Thursday, Thomas Kelly Bolduc told his mother over the phone that police were on the psychiatric ward of St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was being treated. "Somebody got raped," his mother, Carol Wood, recalled him saying. ...more

December 6, 2008

Arson was not suspected, although a pair of separate Saturday afternoon fires burned two homes on the same street, within hours of each other. ...more

December 1, 2008

Plant City has agreed to spend $475,000 to buy nearly one-half acre that was left vacant by arson in 2005 that destroyed almost a block in historical downtown. ...more

November 28, 2008

A man's dog alerted him to a fire and allowed him to escape the blaze that destroyed his home in Dunedin shortly after midnight, fire officials said. ...more

November 25, 2008

HOLMES BEACH - Within hours of a Sunday night fire that destroyed part of a motel owned by missing Holmes Beach resident Sabine Musil-Buehler, police questioned her boyfriend, William J. Cumber. ...more

November 18, 2008

A fire Sunday night destroyed part of a motel in Manatee County that is co-owned by a woman who disappeared two weeks ago. ...more

November 17, 2008

TAMPA Arson was the cause of a fire that caused $10,000 in damage Tuesday night to a shed used by the City of Tampa Parks Department, authorities say. ...more

November 11, 2008

A Dunedin man was arrested this morning on charges he set fire to a converted shed owned by a man he had earlier threatened, Clearwater police said. ...more

September 29, 2008

Derek Derousse might have had a chance for a lenient sentence had his life been free of trouble before 2007. ...more

September 25, 2008

An unoccupied mobile home was destroyed in a Friday evening blaze and investigators are checking to see if arson caused the fire. ...more

September 7, 2008