LAND O'LAKES - The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has arrested a 48-year-old truck driver on a charge of first-degree murder in the September 2006 death of a Land O'Lakes woman. ...more

November 17, 2007

A teen charged in the brutal rapes of two Zephyrhills women was denied bail Monday, despite pleas from his family. ...more

November 6, 2007

A central Florida man was charged with vehicular homicide after DNA evidence showed he was driving a car that ran a red light and struck another vehicle, killing four family members, authorities said. ...more

November 4, 2007

A man charged and jailed in connection with six Tampa rapes was charged Friday in a seventh, which involves a 10-year-old girl. ...more

October 27, 2007

TAMPA – A serial rapist is responsible for an attack on a 10-year-old girl in August, Tampa police said today. ...more

October 26, 2007

Neanderthals, an archaic human species that dominated Europe until the arrival of modern humans about 45,000 years ago, possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence retrieved from two individuals excavated from El Sidron, a cave in northern Spain. ...more

October 21, 2007

LARGO - Pinellas County Sheriff's Office detectives have made an arrest in a 13-year-old rape investigation after resubmitting DNA evidence to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement laboratory. Investigators on Tuesday arrested David Allen Ginther, 37, at his mobile home at 6030 150th Ave. N. in Clearwater, sheriff's Sgt. Jim Bordner said. ...more

October 10, 2007

Local sex-crimes investigators said they have issued a nationwide alert through an FBI system to learn whether a serial rape suspect has victimized women beyond the Bay area. ...more

October 3, 2007

TAMPA - Local sex-crimes investigators said have issued a nationwide alert through an FBI system to learn whether a serial rape suspect has victimized women beyond the Bay area, police said Tuesday. ...more

October 2, 2007

TAMPA - DNA lab results led Hillsborough County deputies on Friday to arrest a serial rape suspect they say is responsible for at least seven attacks on single black mothers in the same part of town since 2003. ...more

September 22, 2007