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

January 23, 2009

A local man was found guilty this week by a Highlands County jury on two counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age. ...more

January 18, 2009

Nicholas Altamuro and Sharon Sprout share at least one characteristic - they're violent criminals. ...more

December 24, 2008

Phillup Partin, the drifter who killed 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook in 2002, will die for his crime. ...more

December 3, 2008

Convicted killer Phillup Partin was sentenced to death this afternoonin the 2002 slaying of 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook. ...more

December 1, 2008

First Of Two Parts The story has become the stuff of legend. In the late 1970s, the Seminoles elected James Billie tribal chair. Billie, a Vietnam veteran, felt overwhelmed by the challenge. At the time, native Seminoles were mired in poverty. When he asked an elderly medicine man what he needed to do to earn the trust of the tribe, the shaman instructed him to first capture, kill and eat a Florida panther. ...more

November 9, 2008

The judge's indignant remarks came a day after a jury acquitted a man of charges he had struck two Gulfport police officers. ...more

October 11, 2008

O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder in 1995, was found guilty Friday of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. ...more

October 4, 2008

Paramedics were on scene Friday morning at a "minor" crash involving a school bus and another vehicle, a Pasco County Fire Rescue dispatcher said. ...more

September 20, 2008

By 2006, Karen Lane had endured years of unreported manipulation, threats and abuse at the hands of her husband, Keith. ...more

September 18, 2008