A former youth baseball volunteer was sentenced to life in prison after a Hillsborough County jury today found him guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl, prosecutors said. ...more

March 27, 2009

Death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is awaiting execution for the murder of two Bay area women in 1986, has won a new trial - his fourth - in the slaying of a third woman that same year. ...more

March 21, 2009

Death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who is awaiting execution for the murder of two Bay area women in 1986, has won a new trial – his fourth – in the slaying of a third woman that same year. ...more

March 20, 2009

A Highlands County jury began deliberating late Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of the trial of three people charged in a 2008 Avon Park New Year's Eve brawl that involved police officers. ...more

March 12, 2009

A local murder suspect who drew national attention in 2005 for perching himself atop a crane in Atlanta for 56 hours was found guilty today and sentenced to life in prison. ...more

February 13, 2009

A motion for a change of venue has been granted in the case of a Sebring man charged with killing Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Nicholas Sottile. ...more

February 10, 2009

Shannon Pierson died of a drug overdose on March 3, 2007. The night before, the 19-year-old had snorted a crushed oxycodone pill given to her by Max Lutz, prosecutors said. ...more

February 5, 2009

Shannon Pierson died of a drug overdose on March 3, 2007. The night before, the 19-year-old had snorted a crushed oxycodone pill given to her by Max Lutz, prosecutors said. On Tuesday, a Pasco County jury deliberated for more than two hours before finding Lutz not guilty of delivery of a controlled substance. ...more

February 4, 2009

A Lutz man accused of performing a sexually suggestive dance with an 8-year-old girl was found guilty this afternoon of lewd and lascivious behavior. ...more

January 28, 2009

A Pasco County jury this afternoon found Ryan Young guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of his mother. ...more

January 23, 2009