The blood trail led from his 81-year-old grandmother's bedroom out to the pool. ...more

August 4, 2008

A Spring Hill man is in jail charged with killing his 81-year-old mother, first beating her with a telephone and remote control, then holding her under water in the family pool, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 3, 2008

A Spring Hill man is in jail charged with killing his 81-year-old mother, first beating her with a telephone and remote control, then holding her under water in the family pool, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 3, 2008

Somebody was watching out for Mike Driggers on Friday. Like his neighbor, who spotted two males in a white Ford Econoline van lurking about the middle-class neighborhood just off CR 17A, north of the city. Suspiciously, they drove past the Driggers' house, turned around at the end of the cul de sac, parked and waited several minutes before they came back. ...more

August 3, 2008

Pinellas Park police have arrested a man after a shooting that left another man severely wounded. The shooting happened at about 1 a.m. today at 7321 Cedar Court N. Officers arrived and found 21-year-old Jose Luiz Hernandez-Monsqueda of Pinellas Park in the parking lot with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with what paramedics said was a life-threatening injury. ...more

July 25, 2008

I simply wanted to fulfill my service hours for graduation. But as a volunteer for the Hillsborough Summer Scholar's Academy, I got so much more. ...more

July 17, 2008

The man accused of a courthouse shooting rampage that left four people dead pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Thursday as his trial began amid high security, more than three years after prosecutors say he confessed in the killings. ...more

July 11, 2008

SEBRING — A jury deliberated less than two hours Thursday before convicting Oral Williams, 21, of nine counts of rape, kidnapping, robbery and burglary. The jury acquitted Williams, of Sebring, on two counts of forcing the victim's boyfriend of engaging in sexual activity with the female. "I would be just guessing why," said Asst. State's Attorney John Kromholz, who rested his case at 2:45 p.m. Thursday. Williams's attorney, Bruce Nants of Bartow, also rested his defense without calling Williams or other witnesses to testify in his defense. ...more

June 20, 2008

BRADENTON - Four years ago, a 14-year-old girl who was staying at a motel here on a trip to Key West was abducted and driven off in a car, then raped while the attacker's shirt covered her face. ...more

June 20, 2008

SEMINOLE - Pinellas sheriff's detectives are trying to determine whether someone was killed in a home on 85th Terrace North as the result of a home invasion. ...more

June 10, 2008