A Bradenton man awaiting trial on rape and molestation charges was arrested in Indiana this week on a warrant from Manatee County charging him with 49 counts of child pornography. Derrick Faircloth, 39, was arrested in July by Manatee County sheriff's deputies and charged with sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation, introduction of obscene materials to a minor and delivering a controlled substance to a minor. ...more

November 6, 2009

A 74-year-old woman is in custody in Pinellas County, accused of killing her granddaughter's estranged husband nearly a year ago in Illinois. ...more

October 6, 2009

Debra Tate, the sister of Roman Polanski's second wife, actress Sharon Tate, says Polanski is brilliant and a "good guy" and she doesn't think her former brother-in-law can get a fair trial in the United States. ...more

September 30, 2009

A routine traffic stop in Highlands County on Saturday led to the arrest of a North Carolina man charged with killing a soldier assigned to Fort Hood, Texas. ...more

June 9, 2009

A Belle Glade reverend was arrested in Brandon this morning on a warrant accusing him of trying to molest underage athletes. ...more

April 15, 2009

A doctor who vanished eight years ago after he was charged with molesting two girls in Pinellas County has turned up under a different name in Ireland, and now is fighting extradition, according to Dublin news organizations. ...more

April 1, 2009

A 57-year-old man has been extradited from Illinois to face charges that he was drunk when he was involved in a wreck last year in Largo that left a motorcyclist dead and led to the motorcyclist's passenger losing a leg. James Laier was booked into the Pinellas County Jail this morning on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter and DUI-serious bodily injury. Bail was set at $55,000. ...more

February 16, 2009

The owner of three fishing boats that were seized after authorities found them smuggling cocaine from Colombia pleaded guilty this morning to a federal drug offense. ...more

February 2, 2009

Ecuador's government has hired a lawyer to appeal the sentences against a citizen on Florida's death row and called again Thursday for the U.S. to return the man to the South American country. ...more

January 29, 2009

A 25-year-old Poinciana man investigators say is connected to a slaying in May was indicted today by a Polk County grand jury. ...more

January 22, 2009