FORSYTH, Mo. (AP) — The attorney for a man accused of escaping from a Florida prison 30 years ago says his client does not plan to fight extradition from Missouri. ...more

December 23, 2009

Oscar Richardson, convicted of robbing a Tampa convenience store at gunpoint, escaped from a work release center 30 years ago. Investigators finally captured him Saturday in Missouri, where he has lived under an assumed name for most of the past three decades, according to the News-Leader in Springfield, Mo. ...more

December 21, 2009

They had grown up in the same Virginia neighborhood and been friends for years. Some were in college now. Some had jobs. Some had Facebook pages filled with friends. ...more

December 12, 2009

A suspected identity thief who authorities say stole credit cards from cars at Pinellas County beaches almost five years ago was arrested in Miami this week. ...more

November 24, 2009

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