TAMPA – A year after Thomas Guth was released from federal prison in 2003, his lawyer told a judge in Chicago that he wanted to start a new life away from the city in Pueblo, Colo. The judge agreed to release Guth early from probation so he could move away with his then-15-year-old son. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA An elementary school secretary is facing dismissal after being charged with felony official misconduct because of unauthorized overtime, the school district said Tuesday. ...more

June 3, 2008

Those who knew Duke Gray described his life as one marked by kindness and compassion. ...more

May 21, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the death sentence appeal of a man convicted in the baseball bat slayings of six people over an Xbox video game system. ...more

May 5, 2008

A man known for his kind soul and generous nature was beaten about the head and strangled to death early Thursday morning. ...more

February 16, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies are looking for a 29-year-old man who they say abducted his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint at about 5 p.m. today from her uncle's home. ...more

December 31, 2007

Sometime during their eight-month relationship, Gary Lee Wilson Jr. made an ominous promise to Kelly Webster: ...more

December 18, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa man is being held without bail in Lake County after investigators there said he traveled to Clermont for sex with a 7-year-old girl and her mother. Neither the child nor her 32-year-old mother exists. The mother was an online persona adopted by a Lake County Sheriff's Office detective communicating via the Internet with the man, Kenneth Gene Miller, 51. ...more

December 14, 2007

SEBRING — Public records and public meetings in Highlands County will soon be more open and more accessible than ever before. With an Internet connection and a few strokes on a keyboard, people can have instant access to virtually every piece of information the county has, plus verbatim accounts of county commission meetings. In about a month, new computer software acquired by the Highlands County Clerk of Courts Office – which handles both county government business and court records – will make more information available more quickly through the Internet. By going to the clerk's Web site, www.hcclerk.org, people will find verbatim accounts of every word spoken by every person during every minute of every Highlands County Board of Commissioners meeting. Those verbatim accounts, in fact, can be viewed on a computer in three ways: a video clip of the section of a meeting that you're interested in, a separate audio-only clip of that meeting segment, and/or an official transcript of that portion of the meeting's minutes. ...more

December 11, 2007

TAMPA - Without an argument from prosecutors, a circuit judge this morning granted bail for James Behanna, whose manslaughter conviction last year was overturned by an appellate court Friday. ...more

December 10, 2007