TAMPA - Tampa Police are investigating a suspicious death at 1610 E. Linden Ave. ...more

November 9, 2007

State Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad - a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the company's employees involved in the episode, government officials said Monday. ...more

October 30, 2007

The Lakeland Police Department is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of abuse of middle school to high school aged students who attend The First Baptist Church at the Mall, or who have attended the church in the past, according to Lakeland police. ...more

October 28, 2007

Despite a telephonic glitch, the city council Thursday chose a lawyer and three-term president of a domestic violence support group to fill out the term of former chairman John Bryan, who resigned and later committed suicide Sept. 7. ...more

October 19, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Before his suicide, St. Petersburg City Councilman John Bryan acknowledged he improperly touched one of his adopted daughters twice, St. Petersburg police said, but he said the touching was unintentional. ...more

September 11, 2007

City Council Chairman John Bryan was found dead by a newspaper reporter Friday afternoon, the same day he resigned amid a criminal investigation into whether he sexually abused two of his adopted daughters and a nanny. ...more

September 8, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - City Council Chairman John Bryan – who resigned today amid a criminal investigation into whether he sexually abused two of his adopted daughters and a third female – was found dead by a newspaper reporter Sept. 7. ...more

September 8, 2007