The first-degree murder trial of a man accused of killing his mother will begin Wednesday in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court. ...more

January 21, 2009

Roger Gayle Thompson avoided a trial and possible life sentence Wednesday by pleading no contest to an attempted murder charge. ...more

January 15, 2009

Roger Gayle Thompson avoided a trial and possible life sentence today by pleading no contest to an attempted murder charge. ...more

January 14, 2009

"Rick, put the gun down,'' a woman says, her words captured on a 911 call made on the last day of her life. Investigators say the voice was that of Elizabeth Evans after her estranged husband, Patrick Evans, burst into her South Pasadena condominium on Dec. 20 and found her and Gerald Taylor, whom she was dating. ...more

January 12, 2009

Bob Germaine, who was sworn in Tuesday as the new Highlands County Clerk of Courts, announced a reorganization and other measures to cut operating costs. ...more

January 9, 2009

Max Hardcore has asked a judge for permission to go to Vegas before he heads off to prison. Hardcore, whose real name is Paul Little, was convicted by a Tampa federal jury of 10 obscenity charges for adult videos he made, starred in and sold over the Internet and through the mail. ...more

January 8, 2009

A judge this afternoon decided to allow prosecutors to use a taped conversation between a former teacher and a teenager she is accused of molesting. ...more

January 8, 2009

The Florida mother charged with murdering her little daughter will not be deposed from jail in a defamation lawsuit. ...more

January 8, 2009

The skyrocketing foreclosure rates that have been making national news for months and became a major issue in the presidential campaigns also hit Highlands County in 2008. ...more

December 31, 2008

As if contractors were not feeling enough pain from the downturn in the economy, in October the Florida Supreme Court gave construction companies yet another burden to overcome. ...more

December 20, 2008